Word: bullish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bonds v. Stocks. Increasingly, finance committees of "big" U. S. corporations have voted to redeem bonds, issue additional common stock. One obvious and bullish reason might be to reduce annual fixed interest charges. Another reason, less obvious and less bullish, might be a desire to take precautions against hard times ahead. Should the U. S. find itself, in 1935 or 1940, in a general business depression, corporations would be glad of flexible capital structures. No such bearish suggestions, however, accompanied these developments...
...close of the week, Secretary of Commerce Whiting issued a distinctly bullish statement. Said he: "Administration policies have made for a substantial and increasing stability in business for several years. ... If these conservative, constructive policies of the government and of business are maintained, then there would seem to be no reason why the present economic situation should not continue...
...helped unsettle the market. Radio Corp. of America dropped more than 12 points, Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck, Wright Aero, Victor Talking Machine, Packard Motor and many another stock declined from 5 to 15 points. Other slumping stocks also began to climb back, the market finally re-asserting its prevailing bullish trend. Observers pointed out that there was no real relation between the Marconi crash and the weakening of the entire Exchange board, attributed the decline to "market nervousness...
Whether Mr. Cutten bought Sinclair stock with a Sinclair-Prairie consolidation in mind, or whether his purchase represents only a characteristic bullish point of view on oils, is a question upon which one man's opinion is as good as any other man's-except Mr. Cutten's. The situation is somewhat complicated by the fact that Mr. Cutten has arrived at the position in which any stock that he buys is automatically skyrocketed by his buying...
...year ago, they stood at $3,371,705,000. Traditionally, rises in the total of brokers' loans are viewed with alarm (TIME, July 23, et seq.). Reassuring, therefore, were the figures quoted by able Statistician Charles H. Platt (Prince & Whitely, Manhattan investment house), in the bullish Wall Street Journal. Wrote Statistician Platt...