Word: dows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bull market worked its way up to still higher ground, closed at 513.03 for the week on the Dow-Jones industrial averages...
Stevenson, who has lived long and comfortably on his income from securities, was wrong about the stock market's normal reaction to declarations of war or other bad news. The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped nearly six points the week after Pearl Harbor, 15 points the week after the invasion of South Korea, 32 points on the first market day after President Eisenhower's heart attack...
After a month-long rise, Wall Street's bounding bull market passed a notable milestone last week. As the week began, stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average drove beyond the 500 mark for the first time in history. Yet the record stood only overnight. Confident investors continued to push stock up day after day. By week's end Dow-Jones industrials stood at 507.60, up 9.76 points for the week...
...became confident that he would indeed say yes. Thus, when the final decision came last week, the news had already been discounted, and it caused little stir in the business world. The only flurry was in Wall Street, where small investors bought heavily. At week's end the Dow Jones industrial average broke through all previous records to a new alltime high...
...came back with a rush after Edgar Eisenhower predicted that his brother would run (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). As a surge of confidence swept through the Street, the market took off. The buying was so lively that the ticker fell behind again and again. By day's end the Dow-Jones industrial average had risen to 7.44-the greatest jump since Nov. 14-and reached...