Word: dowe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dow Jones average, which represents stock prices of America's 30 biggest industrial companies, rose 88.12 points to 2657.38, erasing nearly half the losses suffered in last week's Friday the 13th plunge...
...spite of the gains in the Dow Jones average, stocks whose prices declined outnumbered those that increased by a 5 to 4 margin in the New York Stock Exchange as a whole. Volume totaled 416.29 million shares, the fourth largest in history...
...Dow, in fact, has been at the back of the thundering herd of market indexes, partly because it is made up of blue-chip issues favored by relatively conservative investors. Broader market indexes including Standard & Poor's 500 and the Wilshire 5,000 had already reached all-time record levels by early August. Says Justin Mamis, chief strategist for the investment firm Cowen & Co.: "All the Dow can do now is put the lipstick on." The allure of stocks is broadening rapidly as more and more investors join the stampede, which is demonstrated by the big increase in the market...
...could be the eighth up year in a row," says Morgan Stanley's Byron Wien. "That's never happened in this century." During this bull cycle, U.S. stocks have produced a compounded 17% annual return, almost twice their historic 9% average. Even during the crash year of 1987, the Dow managed to rise...
...CAPTION: Dow Jones Industrials...