Word: bearishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of a bearish Government forecast, farmers had expected their hogs to fetch bad prices all summer. But last week they were selling as high as $5.15 a hundredweight against $3.40 on June 1. Because farmers have needed money so badly that they have sold their hogs right along it was expected that no sudden rush of pigs to market would upset the hog-cart. In Iowa where 13 million hogs are born and fattened every year, the rise from June 1 to last week's average price made a difference of $40,000,000 figuring each...
Four bills, proposing various regulations of short selling in stocks and commodities, are now before Senate committees, and a Congressional investigation of bearish activities on the New York Stock Exchange is impending...
News from the Iron & Steel industry continued bearish. April pig-iron production was up slightly from March as was expected, but was the lowest of any year since 1909 with the exception of 1921. Blast furnaces in operation stood at 113 against 116 on April 1. Steel operations throughout the country were placed at 47% against 48% the previous week, and steelmen hoped a gain by Chevrolet might offset Ford's declining production. Scrap prices dropped lower, tin and rail operations fell. The unfilled orders of United States Steel Corp. on April 30 stood at 3,897,729 tons...
Saturday proved to be a Waterloo for the sure-thing gamblers, however, when Professor Babbitt quoted 73 writers in his lecture. This new high has set a dangerous precedent, the proprietors of the pool fear, for many of the students have turned bulls with a vengeance. A bearish drop in any one lecture would ruin the business, but the owners are unable to stabilize it in any manner. Its increasing popularity is attributed to the fact that there can be no pre-lecture fixing...
Backbone of all investment markets is institutional buying. And leaders of this are the life insurance companies, holders of many bonds, mortgages, common stocks. Cause for genuine alarm would have been a bearish attitude in last week's meeting of Association of Life Insurance Presidents. But no bearishness was discernible...