Word: bearishness
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...More than 95 mergers have been called off this year, including Consolidated Food and United Artists; Litton Industries and Diebold, Inc.; W. R. Grace and Fanny Farmer. Mergers are usually consummated by stock swaps, and when shares fall, the deal loses its allure. The mutual funds have become so bearish that last week they dumped some stock in large blocs. They were getting rid of electronics stocks and shares of machine-tool companies and others likely to be damaged by repeal of the 7% investment-tax credit. The glamour stocks have dropped much more than the blue chips; Fairchild Camera...
Bullish or Bearish? When Wall Street is caught with its shorts up, it is evident that bears have been at work. On the other side, a large short interest technically promises an eventual upward pressure on the market when the short buy to cover. In an exercise called "squeezing the shorts," artful traders sometimes purchase big blocks of stock that have heavy short positions; the idea is to push the short sellers into buying to cover and driving up the price...
...number of high-flying groups, notably electronics and airlines. Since Feb. 9, when the Dow-Jones decline be gan, Collins Radio has moved from 48 to 71, Pan Am from 57 to 60, Gulf & Western from 97 to 106 and Texas Instruments from 200 to 210. On the bearish side, there have been sharp drops in several groups, including aircraft manufacturing, life insurance, oil and utilities...
...Shapiro, professor of Finance at the Business School, forecast that the imminent increase in short-term interest rates will be transmitted to long-term rates within a year. He added that the restrictive effect this will have on capital investment and residential construction will introduce a "bearish note" into the nation's economy...
...July hit an all-time high of 7.2 million shares. When an investor goes short, he borrows stock and sells it, figuring that it will drop and he can later buy it at a lower price. A large amount of short selling suggests that investors are bearish; but for the longer term, it serves to support and lift the market because the short sellers eventually have to buy stock to cover what they borrowed...