Word: dows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock market, which has drifted steadily lower for seven weeks, last week apparently found bottom. In two days stocks bounded up 16.40 points to 632.85 on the Dow-Jones industrial index, the biggest increase in seven months. The slide had not been caused by heavy selling but by a lack of buyers; volume had been thin. Many a broker guessed that the 615-to-620 level, where the market had found strong support last week, may turn out to be a firm bottom from which the market will rise to new peaks...
...skittish as a newborn calf, Wall Street's bull market last week stumbled hard. Stocks dropped 14.82 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average to 637.36, well down from the peak of 678.10 in early August. Brokers all gave the same reasons for the market's weakness: tight money, the steel strike and Premier Khrushchev's visit. Many of them also agreed on what the market will do next. Said Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades Partner Samuel L. Stedman: "I expect a good strong rally before the end of the year, because there is money piling...
Uncertainty over settlement of the steel strike and tightening money last week alarmed many an investor, and the stock market suffered a sharp selloff. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 9.90 points to 645.90, lowest since June 29. then rallied at week's end to close...
...stock market last week took its hardest fall in nearly four years, but picked itself up nimbly by week's end with only a few bruises. On the first day of trading, the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 14.78 points. Not since President Eisenhower's heart attack in September 1955 had a market break been so sharp...
...They felt that any warming in the cold war might bring a cutback in defense orders, even though most Wall Streeters believe that an end to the cold war would be bullish, since it would open the way for a cut in the U.S. budget and in taxes. The Dow-Jones industrial averages dropped 6.31 points in the week, led downward by the electronics stocks. Electronics manufacturers were flying high; Texas Instruments reported alltime-high second-half earnings of $1.62 per share v. 66? last year. Its stock dropped 20⅜ points during the week to close...