Word: dows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dow, Jones & Co.'s Wall Street Journal (circ. 130,000), which has split out of its narrow financial news britches, took another step toward its goal of a national newspaper. Already published in New York and San Francisco, the Journal added a Southwest edition, printed in Dallas. Starting circulation...
...against the New York Stock Exchange. Some 700 Exchange workers were still out. But the brokers who pinch-hit for them had no trouble handling its booming business. In one day, 2,140,000 shares were traded, the biggest since April 14, 1947. By week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average stood at 180.38, up 0.90 from the week before and only 0.66 from the year's high...
Encouraged by the tax cut and passage of ERP (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), trading soared to 1,778,200 shares at midweek, second best day since October. Prices went up also. In four days the Dow-Jones industrial average jumped 3.66 points to 177.61, highest close since mid-January...
...week began hopefully, with the first 2,000,000-share day in nearly a year. But the activity drove prices up less than a point (the Dow-Jones industrial average rose .54, to 173.66). Next day trading eased to 1,160,000 shares, and prices fell off a fraction. At week's end, the market was still marking time...
...share-plus trading, which meant a lot of profit-taking by those who had bought stocks at their lows, had failed to drive prices down. Whether the market had the strength for a further shove upward was still to be shown. At week's end, with the Dow-Jones industrials up only .83 for the week's 5,710,000-share turnover, Wall Street's crystal ball was still as cloudy as ever. This week it was further clouded by a strike of the Big Board and Curb Exchange's A.F.L. floor workers. Members...