Word: bearishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little like a man who was damned if he was going to come down with the flu, even though he already had the sniffles. This week, in the longer, drier sentences of his midyear economic report to Congress, the President frankly admitted that there were some reasons for feeling bearish...
...bears had guessed right only ,six times. Their failure was even more impressive when the short interest was measured in relation to the total volume of trading. In this ratio there were two previous peaks-in 1938 and 1948-as high as last week's. The 1938 bearish peak came just before the market shot up 52 points; the 1948 peak came during a 30-point rise. This moved Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co. to observe last week that the new bearish peak merely means that "Johnny Come Lately is on the bear side...
...incident to which we refer occured during the last meeting of Professor Romans' course in Social Relations 1b. While the lecturer was in the process of summarizing the important points of the year's work, a bearish character dashed onto the New Lecture Hall platform, interrupting with a shout. "Professor Romans has said enough!" In the pretense of presenting a gift (in the form of a neatly ribboned box, which later proved empty) this individual seized control of the lectern and proceeded to read four pages of unhumerous and disgusting parody. His arrogance survived even the dismay of Professor Romans...
Landing Net. Whatever else Young's purchase of I.D.S. might mean, it did illustrate how his Alleghany Corp. has been expanding into other fields and greener pastures. Since early 1948, Alleghany had sold more than $17 million of its railroad holdings, because Young was bearish on their earnings' future. Among the sales: Alleghany's entire common-stock interest in Seaboard Air Line Railroad and most of its holdings in Central of Georgia and Florida East Coast Railway Co. (all roads where Young could not get control). Alleghany also plans to sell its holdings of 225,000 shares...
Glenn G. Munn of Manhattan's Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis seemed bullish. Said he: "Time is running out on this stock market [down] cycle." On the other hand, he was also bearish: "Business may be in a slow-motion rollover into an oldfashioned, spiraling, chain-reaction decline." However, investors should also remember that "we are in ... the Treasury-Keynesian-Keyserling cycle. That means Government intervention-cheating the silly down-cycle from its accustomed brutal innings...