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...Dow has now risen more than 90 points from its low of 1163.06 on Aug. 8, thus upholding an old Wall Street tradition: the summer rally. Market analysts say last week's upswing was due largely to the growing belief that the Federal Reserve will now let interest rates fall slightly...
After wilting during much of the summer, the stock market began autumn last week with an auspicious performance. The Dow Jones industrial average twice established new highs, breaking the previous record of 1248.30 set on June 16. The index rose 15.25 points on Tuesday to close at 1249.19, then slipped 5.9 points on Wednesday, but went up 14.23 points on Thursday to 1257.52. It slid 1.93 on Friday to finish the week at 1255.59, up 29.88 points...
...lived through those days of trial, appeal, agitation, and execution. The executions look place a few months after I graduated from Harvard College. David C. Dow...
...Dow had steamed ahead 260 points, to 1036, the largest point gain in any two-month period ever. On Nov. 3 came the biggest one-day gain: 43.41, pushing the Dow to 1065.49. That broke the old record of 1051 set a decade earlier, in January 1973. A day later came the largest single day's trading volume: 149,350,000 shares, a load handled almost effortlessly by new computerized trading systems at the New York Stock Exchange and drastically modifying the definitions of what were "light," "moderate" and "heavy" trading days. From August through June, an average...
...breathtaking, it must be measured against the fact that a decade and more of inflation had so seriously eroded stock values that for many investors, the bull market's gains enabled them to do little more than recoup losses. Just to keep up with inflation, the record 1051 Dow should have stood at 2445 by November...