Word: charting
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With the gains there were signs that prices were creeping up again. The Labor Department reported that the wholesale price index for the month of March had risen 0.6%, to 120% of the 1947-49 average. The March rise, the largest in the past two years (see chart) was caused primarily by bad weather, which brought an increase in the cost of foods. Labor Department experts expect that wholesale prices, along with consumer prices, will creep up more than 1% this year...
...Dandy, by Ellen Moers. A chart of the dwindling course of dandyism, from Beau Brummell, who issued dictates to 19th century England on the curve of a brim and the blend of a snuff, to the modern male who trembles at the brink of foppishness when he folds a handkerchief into his breast pocket...
This, in turn, has affected the long-term Government and corporate bond market, where prices have risen to bring down yields (see chart). As bond yields have dropped, stock yields have risen because of the decline in the market. The reverse spread between stock and bond yields (5.39% for bonds v. 3.42% for industrials) is the closest it has been since early June last year...
Another school of technicians, typified by Lowry's Reports. Inc., pins most of its faith on a charting method -called breadth of market studies-that is widely used by other Wall Streeters. What Lowry's does is chart volume of stocks advancing and declining, correlate these figures with price gains and losses. The Lowry's chart shows whether buying power is stronger than selling pressure, and the reverse. Currently, the chart indicates that buying power, while weaker than selling pressure, is getting stronger...
...Such chart experts as Walston & Co.'s Edmund Tabell and Du Pont Homsey & Co.'s G. S. Colby rely heavily on point and figure charts that carefully note every price fluctuation in hundreds of stocks, as well as the changes in market averages. A basic part of the theory is that the longer a stock or a market average stays in a narrow trading range, the greater will be its rise-or fall-when the stock or average breaks out. Tabell, who advised his clients to sell in January, now says: "The industrial average has begun to form...