Word: bearishness
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...usually accompany or only slightly precede the crest of business prosperity, are seen. There is a large school 'which adheres to the belief, consciously or not, that all "business cycles" are alike in duration as well as in general theory and phenomena. Hence some "financial services" are already bearish on the stock market and are becoming pessimistic over the business outlook also. No prophet can, of course, be entirely disproved until after the event...
...months ago, the Chicago Board of Trade was not only "bearish" on wheat but on its own future. Legislators in Washington and in the State of Illinois vied with each other in proposing new legislation to cripple the "Pit." Farm organizations were calmly planning to take over the grain business in its entirety. Grain traders could make no profits; grain brokers no commissions. Predictions that the world's greatest grain exchange would shortly shut up shop were freely made...
...week whose outstanding developments were in the money and securities markets, there has been much conjecture regarding the opinions and the position of Jesse L. Livermore, easily the leading stock market operator of today. Back in the Winter he had announced (TIME, Feb. 25) that he was "bearish" on industrial stocks-a prediction which the subsequent market declines emphatically justified. Wall Street, half-persuaded to turn bullish on the present low money rates, has waited to see "when Livermore would cheer up" and take the lead in "putting 'em up." But Mr. Livermore still stands pat. In a recent...
This is the season when much nonsense is uttered by business men, bankers and stockbrokers about future probabilities. There is much avoidance of admitting unpleasant facts, and much loose talk about the necessity of having "faith in the United States." Between rather obvious " bearish" propaganda on the one hand, and platitudinous optimism on the other, it is hard to keep one's vision squarely on present facts and future probabilities. That 1924 is not destined to equal last year in the extent of most corporate profits is generally agreed- although not always out loud. In many respects...
These optimistic events at once split Wall Street into two schools of thought. One declared its belief that the turn had come, and that pessimistic predictions regarding 1924 had been overdone. The other, bearish to begin with, continued in that frame of mind; it viewed with cynical suspicion the remarkable coincidence of the extra Steel dividend, Judge Gary's cheerful prophecies, Broker Livermore's equally cheerful pronouncement, the upward rush in the price of the four present leading speculative stocks...