Word: bullish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...results to date have been bullish. Merrill Lynch maintains its traditional dominance in selling stocks and bonds, and is three times as large as its nearest competitor, E.F. Hutton. In addition, the firm last year took in twice as much from its other financial operations ($1.4 billion) as from its securities-trading business ($642 million). In the first half of 1980 alone, it earned $100.8 million, almost as much...
...everyone is bullish on bovies. Irving Wallace, who has sold nine novels to film makers, has doubts: "The studio will be telling the writer: 'Can't you get some visual excitement into...
According to Wall Street folk wisdom, whichever direction the market takes during January will pretty much indicate its heading for the year as a whole. By that standard, which has tended to be surprisingly accurate over the years, 1980 ought to be bullish for investors. During the month that ended last week, every significant measure of investment activity on the nation's two largest stock exchanges rose handsomely, and trading volume soared into orbit...
...excitement in the stodgy old stock market, which has yet to make a really convincing recovery from the disastrous losses that followed the go-go years of the late 1960s? Wall Streeters had no end of bullish answers, but mostly they boiled down to a growing feeling among investors that the nation's psychological funk has bottomed out and that under the spur of events in Iran and Afghanistan, a sense of direction and purpose is finally beginning to emanate from Washington. Says Howard Stein, chairman of the Dreyfus Fund, a leading mutual fund investment firm: "There is always...