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Surveying the results, Dixon attributed some of the harriers' success to their inexperience. "The fact is that all of us are more or less neophytes, and that keeps us together. It's a sort of bond and it adds to how much we enjoy it," Dixon said...
Those high interest rates have paralyzed American financial markets. Stock prices have fallen to their lowest level in 15 months, and corporate bond values are reaching record depths. Says David Jones, chief economist for the Wall Street securities firm of Aubrey G. Lanston & Co.: "The feeling in the market is horrible. Prices just keep falling. It's utter frustration. Hopelessness...
Long-term bonds suffered, and badly. Their yields rose with the general level of interest rates, up to 17% for some high-quality corporate offerings. But the record yield levels failed to attract investors, who saw no reason to tie up their money for as long as 40 years of perhaps volatile bond prices and high inflation...
...later date. The speculators are betting that interest rates will go higher rather than lower. If the cost of money goes up, they sell their futures contracts for a good earning. For instance, an investor who in June put up a $2,400 deposit on a $100,000 Treasury bond future due in December of this year could have liquidated his position last week and made an impressive profit of about...
Raymond N. Joeckel, 55, Eagle's president, believes that since the terrain in mountainous Liechtenstein greatly resembles the sandy, uplifted formations of the Western Overthrust Belt in the Rockies, there may be oil and gas in those hills as well. Eagle had to put up a bond of $3 million against possible damages caused by its drilling and promise to pay 15% of the earnings of any successful wells to the Liechtenstein government. But for that, Eagle received exclusive rights to explore the nation's 39,500 acres...