Word: bullishness
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...that proceeded right through the bottom of the grain market, Mr. Arthur Cutten (Chicago) was notably annoyed and the U. S. Department of Agriculture was somewhat alarmed (TIME, Mar. 23, 30, BUSINESS). Mr. Cutten was annoyed because he, the big holder of wheat and rye, was feeling bullish, and his enormous paper profits were being swept rudely into oblivion . Also , Mr. Cutten felt that the catastrophe had been timed purposely to do him injury, since it happened while he was on an automobile excursion, out of touch with his agents. U. S. Secretary Jardine was alarmed because the simultaneous action...
...Leonid Krassin, the first ambassador of Soviet Russia to France. For months, the Soviet government sought recognition from France, and for months the French wavered between rejecting and accepting the Russian protestations of good faith. At last came recognition, and with it. Russian international stock took on a bullish tone...
...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 interview, the famed operator stated his opinion and his reasons for it. He feels that it takes more...
...figure of 1916. Acreages have also been reduced sharply; that of Winter wheat is 53,818,000 compared with 58,253,000 last year, while that for Spring wheat is 16,920,000 against 18,786,000 last year. As far as estimates go, therefore, wheat figures are all "bullish." It is recognized by many historians that the rise in wheat prices in the Autumn of 1896 allayed agricultural unrest, defeated Bryan and elected McKinley. From a statistical point of view, there may well be a similar rise in wheat prices before election, with vast potential consequences to Robert...
Then came the turn. Late one afternoon, U. S. Steel revealed a fine quarterly statement, declared an extra dividend of ¼. Next morning, by curious coincidence ? if it was a coincidence ? the redoubtable Jesse L. Livermore announced, apropos of nothing in particular, that he had turned bullish, that with agricultural recovery and a Euro pean settlement near at hand profits lay on the buying side, and that next year should be prosperous without becoming a boom. Stock prices soared. Can rose 5? that day, Baldwin 5½, Studebaker 5?, Steel 5?, with lesser advances throughout the list, even among...