Word: dowe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson reported that Harvard's endowment lost $1.3 billion, or 10 percent of its value, in the two and a half months since its reported $13 billion high at the end of June. The drop corresponds to declines in the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average between July and mid-September. Add line about current state of endowment here...
...next day, fearing that his comment was a harbinger of a forthcoming increase in interest rates, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 140 points...
...exact date of the change-in-hands of the property or the date of the photograph that hangs in the hair salon. But county records show that the property was sold to Abraham Lavash of Somerville in 1922 by the treasurer of the Cambridge Securities Commission, George L. Dow...
Neither is true now, though. In the past few weeks, deft traders have been able to make 15 points on IBM in one day or make 6 on 3M or Alcoa, Eastman Kodak or Hewlett-Packard. These are marquee Dow names, not heavily manipulated penny stocks or hyped Net offerings. You could "scalp" a huge gain simply by buying these stocks at the opening and selling them at the bell...
...give you a reason. Because it's hard--really hard--to get the direction right, even with all that great info and terrific execution. We have enjoyed the bull market of a lifetime, one that has seen the Dow go up more than 8,000 points, and yet every day thousands of issues go down or disappear or blow up. And while you hear periodically of the day trader who earns enough to retire, you don't hear about them any more than you do about lottery winners...