Word: bearish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposite of a call, is favored by bearish speculators. The put is an option giving the purchaser the right to sell 100 shares of stock at a set price at a future date. Last June, Filer sold a put option on Boeing Airplane Co. giving the buyer the right to sell 100 shares at 37⅝ by Dec. 2. Boeing is now quoted around 30, but the buyer of the put can still exercise it at 37⅝. After deducting the $400 costs for the put and commissions, the purchaser has a profit of about...
Only the most bearish investor could ignore a key theme running through the 1958 fourth quarter and year-end reports. It was the salutary effect of a new drive for efficiency and productivity. A few years ago, declining sales usually meant a decline in profits. But now many a company can post smart profits even when sales dip. Goodyear Tire & Rubber was down 3.8% in sales for 1958, yet managed to hit record profits, up 2% to $6.08 per share. After a poor third quarter, Reynolds Metals did so well in the last quarter that it actually increased its full...
Last week, in a calm, sober study, Roy L. Reierson, vice president and chief economist of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., concluded that the bearish worries had far outrun the possibilities. "There is some feeling that the American economy may, within the next few years, be engulfed by a speculative, inflationary burst involving a flight out of dollars and money assets and into tangible property, gold or equities. The odds do not seem to favor such a prospect at this time...
...grey lining. Much of the May job increase resulted from a surge of hirings for construction projects that had been delayed by early spring's foul weather; employment in manufacturing, the economy's soft spot, actually declined again in May. And Capitol Hill's bearish Joint Economic Committee predicted last week that the economy will not get back its full pre-recession robustness until mid-1959 at the earliest, and possibly not until late...
...those still in a bearish frame of mind, Roy L. Reierson, vice president of and chief economist for Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., argued that the leveling out of the economy is still ahead...