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Word: bulls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bear & the Bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 8, 1962 | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

This looks like it! And if it is the long overdue end of the longest bull market on record [June 1], there is the sure knowledge that stocks, like the phoenix, will rise again. Meanwhile, there is a strong possibility that a certain currently popular smoothie may prove to be the Democrats' Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 8, 1962 | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...increased investment-the Administration has thus managed to bring hostility and suspicion upon itself and to impair the confidence of the business community. That impairment was symbolized when the stock market plunge more than wiped out the Dow-Jones average's entire gain from the late "Kennedy bull market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Day of the Bear | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...course, would have said nothing of the sort, since he has a rather affectionate attitude toward bear markets. In 1929 he got out in time and sold short heavily, thereby making a killing. As for the great postwar bull market, Old Joe missed it: wanting to protect his millions from the danger of another 1929, he invested in real estate instead, made even more money than he ever made in the market. *Kennedy got valuable help from Inland Steel Co.'s Chairman Joseph Block, who at a critical moment bowed to Administration urgings and announced that Inland would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Day of the Bear | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...Legend has it that Wall Street's use of the word "bull" comes from the upward toss that a bull gives his horns before charging ahead, while the use of "bear" to describe a short seller comes from the old saying about "selling a bearskin before the bear is caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: One Hectic Week | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

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