Word: bullish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open market. Briefly, if an investor bought General Electric Common at twenty and attempts to sell at thirty-seven, his seventeen dollar profit is so heavily taxed that he is literally compelled to hold on to the stock. The result is fatal to market stability. At a period of bullish enthusiasm when the number of buyers is unduly stimulated, the number of those who naturally be sellers is artificially restricted...
Such facts were reported in Manhattan last week to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. They were based on a survey of 1,000 Congregational & Christian Churches made by a Commission on Church Attendance headed by that famed and pious statistician, Roger Ward Babson. Bullish on U. S. domestic economy, Statistician Babson is decidedly bearish on the state of U. S. religion...
...whom 24 were women were all the audience Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare drew when he returned from Geneva, presumably with earth-shaking news about Europe's crisis. In all constituencies candidates bitterly complained that party leaders had "greatly overdone the wireless." John Bull, feeling that John Bullish Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was going to win the election anyhow, puffed his pipe at home while the flesh & blood candidate around the corner sulked. John got all the electioneering he cared to hear from broadcasts. In the famed "depressed areas" of Britain, where grinding poverty stalks and almost nobody...
Indeed, the Morgan announcement was construed marketwise as having almost as bullish implications as President Roosevelt's later pronouncement (see p. 11). In the little grey house at the corner of Broad & Wall Streets there was evidently considerable faith in the future of the securities business if not in the future of the whole U. S. Rival firms which have been industriously collecting business scattered by New Deal legislation were not so pleased, and stock in First Boston Corp., currently the leading U. S. investment bankers, dropped $4 per share on the announcement. But the stanch and stolid New York...
...Bullish as were the half-year earnings of most steel companies, they were not bullish enough to account for last week's spectacular rise in steel shares on the New York Stock Exchange where no less than 14 steel issues broke into new high ground. One was U. S. Steel preferred which soared to 100¾, to sink only three-fourths of a point after earnings were announced. Reason was the counter-seasonal boom in steel. While everyone supposed that, as usual, steel operations would wilt in July, late July production turned out to be nearly a record...