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Katherine Bonner, stock-market player, is not afraid of those brainy, brawny institutional investors who routinely turn Wall Street upside down with their 100,000-share transactions. Nor is she intimidated by those high-tech program traders who can send the Dow Jones averages reeling with their computer- powered stampedes. In fact, Bonner is not only making what she modestly calls a "good living" in the market but is earning enough to help out her grandchildren and great-grandchildren too. A highly active investor, Bonner, an 80-year-old Houstonian, has built up a handsome portfolio by studying financial news...
...biggest boon, however, is the seemingly relentless bullishness of the market. The remarkable run of the Dow Jones industrial average began in August 1982 at the lowly level of 776.92. The Dow, having more than tripled in value since then, is now so high that investors sometimes get a kind of queasy altitude sickness that requires a retreat. That is what happened this spring, when a sizable sell-off sent the Dow tumbling 190 points from a record 2405.54 on April 6 to a low of 2215.87 on May 20. But then the Dow began a summer surge...
...volatility of the market is inspiring a mixture of excitement and fear, since the Dow's stratospheric level gives it a tendency to sweep up and down from time to time by 50 points or more a day. When individuals reap an overnight windfall, they can become manic and even a little careless about where to put the money next. "Clients are calling about speculative stocks that they've heard about at cocktail parties over the weekend. I'm worried about this," says Jerry Tisserand, a broker for Thomson McKinnon Securities at a branch in Evansville, Ind. At the same...
...Dow Jones industrials weekly closings...
DESCRIPTION: Dow Jones Industrials, January 1986 to July 17, 1987. Color illustration of man riding bull while bear watches...