Word: bullishness
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Ironically, amid all this bullish news the stock market last week resoundingly failed to pierce the magic 1,000 mark on the Dow Jones industrial average. For three days prices hovered just below that point, reaching 996 at midday Thursday; then sell orders flooded the New York Stock Exchange. The average tumbled 23 points the last two days, to close the week...
Some older styles still fit Americans to a T. They include shirts decorated with iron-on glitter, advertising slogans (I'M BULLISH ON SCHLITZ MALT LIQUOR) and the snappy one-liners that have long been a hallmark of the T shirt genre. Among the latter is a classic created by Wisconsin Designer Verne Holoubek: HARD TIMES. STARRING YOU AND ME. COMING SOON...
This "nice symmetry" is even nicer calculation. For the historical fervor fostered by the Bicentennial promises to turn 1876 into a quasi-official happening. Prepublication signs have been uniformly bullish. Random House and Ballantine Books jointly paid Vidal an advance approaching $1 million for hardback and paperback rights. The Book-of-the-Month Club, which has made 1876 its main selection for March, shelled out more than twice its normal fee of $85,000. A first printing of 75,000 copies has virtually disappeared under a flood of orders, and a second printing...
...extract literary criticism from the kind of scholarly biases that determine what's "good" and what's "bad" on some kind of stock market of literature. He parodies the idea in Anatomy of Criticism by talking about how T.S. Eliot used to say Milton was bearish and Spenser bullish one year, and vice-versa the next. He also warns against attaching certain cultural values to particular works and therefore making them important, or parts of the "myth" of a particular society. This, anyway, is his ideal for criticism as scholarly endeavor...
With a final sharp spurt, the stock market last week finished its most explosively bullish month ever. Easily shaking off some midweek profit taking, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 24 points on the last two trading days to close on Friday at 975, its highest mark since October 1973. That brought the rise for all of January to 123 points, the most for any month in history. Even more astonishing was the hectic pace of trading on the New York Stock Exchange: January rewrote every volume record in the Big Board book. The month witnessed the highest turnover...