Word: downturns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wish I had more money to invest," said Helen Ginty, 60, a secretary in New York, asserting that she plans no change in her retirement investment strategy. "I don't think people are as crazy as they used to be" during a downturn...
...This is one of the things we've already looked into," she said. "If there's a sustained downturn in the market, this current model could be problematic...
...obvious concern is that a serious downturn in investment markets would have a detrimental effect on the current account of the University and would require alternative financial sources, very possibly from the Faculties," the report says...
...economy ever [BUSINESS, July 28] was interesting, but history has not been kind to the view that the stock-market Crash of October 1929 ended the Roaring Twenties. The National Bureau of Economic Research, the organization that dates the business cycles for the U.S., places the beginning of the downturn in August 1929, some two months before the Crash. And in October 1987 the U.S. experienced a stock-market crash similar in magnitude to 1929's, with no immediate economic downturn. Indeed, the economy's expansion continued until July 1990. Many economists now blame the Federal Reserve and its actions...
...which it must, it certainly doesn't have to be in calamity. The more natural turn would be to a slow, grinding bear market, in which stocks fall some 20% to 30% over a year or longer. No panic. Just a lot of selling, most likely hinged to a downturn in the economy...