Word: bearishness
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Yevgeni Matverev (He) is properly bearish, obsessed, and soulful. Tamara Syomina (She) is buxomly beautiful with wonderful eyes. In this grand film, the two are a pleasure to watch...
...minutes. But there was no panic, and trading volume stayed extraordinarily low for most of the week. Professionals figured that, in any case, the market needed an excuse to retreat after a heady climb, guessed that there was a good deal of plain old profit taking. At the most bearish hour last week, Indicator Digest, an investment advisory service, issued a special bulletin: "Emotional war jitters have always culminated in good buying opportunities." True enough, but wary professionals were not entirely sure that the jitters were quite over...
...thing seems strange: while business snorts bullishly, Europe's stock markets are bearish. At the same time that the U.S. market set an alltime high last week, with the Dow-Jones industrials closing at 830.99, Europe's markets were in the doldrums. More and more businessmen found themselves in the position of France's Arnaud de Vogué, president of the St. Gobain glassmaking giant, who reported that profits are up 45% for the year but that the company's stock has dropped 12.5% in the past eight months...
...Wheeler Dealers provides the dreariest view of Wall Street since the crash of '29. Billed as satire, it opens bullish, closes bearish, but mostly just bumbles along with a portfolio full of otiose gags about Texas, the sexes (at least three), and stockbrokers-with the brokers depicted as a shifty lot who spend their time peddling worthless securities to unsuspecting clients. The plot has something to do with a young speculator who arrives in Manhattan from Texas, buys the first taxicab he climbs into, snaps up a swank restaurant because his date likes to eat there, impulsively flies...
...recommended that trading in stock issues that are "unlisted" on any exchange be automated and perhaps made cheaper for the investor, and that the cost of trading in "odd lots" of fewer than 100 shares be lowered. It asked for closer regulation for the stock exchange specialists and bearish "short sellers," and suggested that the exchanges' anachronistic floor traders be abolished altogether...