Word: bearish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People haven't got excess funds. The bull market is leveling off, but we're not in a bear market, and the economy is as sound as ever." To Paine, Webber's Luttrell Maclin. the "election of the Democrats would not be catastrophic, or even necessarily bearish." His explanation of the slide: "The market was just too high. General Motors and Du Pont, for instance, reached their high a year ago, and they've been going down ever since." Walston & Co.'s Research Director Edmund Tabell, a top chartist, added: "The market has lost upside...
There are a few simple mountain ballads that sing a gentler tune, and The Christus of Guadalajara shows an embracing awareness of the meaning c-Christian pity. It is true that most of these poems, some of them rich in language and nearly all steeped in emotion, are bearish on the human condition. No one reading them or seeing Williams' latest play (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) is apt to suppose that Tennessee Williams is changing his point of view. But not even Williams can stew complacently in pessimism all the time. He knows that there really...
...suffered its worst fall in 26 years. For Wall Streeters the weekend announcement could not have come at a worse time, for the first impulse of thousands upon thousands of small stockholders was to sell. As the selling orders poured in by wire on Sunday to brokerage houses, the bearish pressure on the market built up to enormous strength. By 8:30 a.m. Monday, brokers who hustled into their offices earlier than usual found out how bad it was going to be. In London and Paris, where U.S. stocks are traded, the markets had opened weak a few hours earlier...
...Lowell Master describes himself as "very bearish" about his plan's immediate chance of execution. He was optimistic enough, however, to have asked the University not to paint the Lowell dining hall during the past vacation, as was planned...
...trouble. Some of the reasons listed by 83-year-old Irwin Vick Shannon, once a dean the sunspotters : "Cheap money, huge governmental spending and enormous building activity have largely offset the usual [bearish] effects of low sunspot activity." Nobody thought that stock prices would go up forever. In fact, Wall Streeters were looking for a good-sized "technical" reaction-simply because the market had gone up so fast with hardly a breather. But no one thought that it had reached its peak. Just as Americans had become accustomed to;-an evergrowing economy, there was no reason why stock prices, which...