Word: dowe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed postal increase," complained New Yorker Publisher David Michaels, "would go far beyond what the magazine business can support." Richard Deems, Hearst Magazines president, said that his company was "terribly disturbed." John J. McCarthy, a vice president of Dow Jones & Co. (the Wall Street Journal), viewed the figures as "horrendous...
Last week the long rally gained new vigor. The New York Stock Exchange's Dow Jones industrial average spurted above the psychologically important 900 mark for the first time in three months. Volume in one session surged to 21.4 million shares, lifting a wide range of stocks, from blue-chip stalwarts to long-depressed aerospace issues like United Aircraft and McDonnell Douglas. At week's end less hectic trading had pushed the Dow Jones to 910, a gain of 112 points from last November...
...negotiators usually let the point pass. Porter likes to glare across the green baize table top and say: "Maybe you didn't hear me." He is particularly irked by the manners of one Communist delegate, who ostentatiously leafs through TIME and other U.S. publications as well as the Dow Jones stock averages during some sessions -especially when the news has been bad. Porter plans to make the Communists more responsive by trying to open the talks to the press...
...STOCK MARKET began celebrating on the first rumors of devaluation; the Dow Jones industrial average has risen sharply since Thanksgiving. Wall Streeters were registering their relief that the international money crisis appeared to be on the way to solution. The market stands to get a more direct boost from devaluation in 1972. William Wolman, vice president of Argus Research in New York, forecasts a record increase of almost $3 billion in foreign purchases of U.S. securities next year. After devaluation, foreign investors' money will buy not only more 747 jets and American coal, but also more U.S. stock...
...stock market, as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average, climbed 17 points last week, to close at 874. Since Thanksgiving it has jumped 72 points. On the basis of expected increases in earnings for the companies that make up the index, some high mutual fund executives are again indulging in their favorite dreams, forecasting that the Dow will finally top 1,000 next year...