Word: dowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rose 5.59 points to 3209.53, surpassing the closing peak of 3204.83 It reached two days before...
...confirmed, Franklin will bring a power-packed resume to the position. The Harvard M.B.A. served as a headhunter in the Nixon Administration, a vice chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission from 1973 to '79, and is a director of seven corporations, among them Aetna, Dow Chemical and Westinghouse. A savvy Republican fund raiser, Franklin co-chaired a dinner last fall that gathered $1.2 million for Bush's 1992 campaign. Her appointment is also a campaign tactic to boost Bush's support among women, 54% of the voters...
...economy is in such dismal shape, how come Wall Street feels so good? After five consecutive daily increases, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record 3101.52 last week. The bull run has pushed the Dow index up 167 points, or nearly 6%, since Dec. 20. That was the day the Federal Reserve Board lowered the discount rate -- which is what the Fed charges banks for borrowing money -- a full percentage point, to a 27-year...
...CAPTION: Dow Jones average at week...
...Wall Street Journal reported last month? Could 1992 wind up being the worst stock market year of the '90s just as 1932, 1942, 1950, 1962, 1974 and 1982 were the worst years of their respective decades? In five of those six "worst years," FXC Investors notes, the Dow dropped well below its book value. The '60s were the exception; at its nadir, 536 in 1962, the Dow was 33% above book. But with today's Dow Jones at 2900 and its book value around 1330, if 1992 should prove to be one of those icky worst years -- even...