Word: bearishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there were bearish reports, too. The Labor Department announced that in mid-March nearly half of the U.S.'s major employment areas had a "substantial labor surplus," meaning 6% or more of the labor force out of work. And auto sales were creeping along at a rate of 3,500,000 a year, as against 1957 sales of nearly...
...Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. and his board approved a cut in the discount rate from 3½% to 3% by Federal Reserve Banks in New York, Richmond, Atlanta and St. Louis. The remaining eight districts were expected to follow soon. Next day the stock market reversed its bearish decline of recent weeks (see below), and U.S. businessmen everywhere breathed a sigh of relief...
...second and third scoreless quarters saw Brown, realizing that Harvard had not scored, deciding they might score on Princeton's conqueror after all. Play shifted up and down the field, often halted by whistles penalizing Brown's rather bearish quality of soccer...
...continuing market decline was due in part to gloomy news from the unstable Middle East, but most traders thought that a far more disquieting factor was an increasingly bearish view of business prospects in the eyes of many an investor. Business is still rolling along at the highest level in history; jobs were at a steady peak in September despite layoffs in the aircraft industry (see below); and retailers were predicting record sales for the rest of the year. Yet there was enough disturbing news on the nation's economic front last week to reinforce fears that...
While the market's erratic performance turned many Wall Streeters bearish, few experts cried doom. Instead, they saw the downtrend as an orderly retreat from early summer's unwarranted high level, which brought the market within a point of the alltime 521.05 peak set last year. The selling waves were generally light-average daily volume was less than 2,000,000 shares-a sign that investors are not discouraged and intend to wait out the slump. Most big institutional investors appeared to be switching to other stocks instead of leaving the market altogether; there was no sudden rise...