Word: dows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dow Chemical...
After four weeks in the doldrums, the stock market came to life last week, pushed into uncharted territory. The Dow-Jones industrials clipped through the old high of 614.69, climbed 18 points for the week to a new record of 624.06. Reflecting week-by-week increase in car-loadings and higher rail earnings, the Dow-Jones railroads climbed to a new 1959 high of 168.92, up 5.81 for the week, and highest since 1956. What encouraged Wall Street about the advance was that the market leadership came from such old-line blue chips as American Telephone & Telegraph and International Business...
...past decade Tabell has been pointing up. In 1948, when the Dow-Jones industrials were around 180 and Wall Street was expecting a drop, Tabell predicted an intermediate rise to 250, a rise to 450 by the mid-1950s. In the 1953 recession downturn, Tabell wrote that "this is the last buying opportunity" before a market rise that would "break through the 1929 top of 386 and carry to the 500-600 level by the late 1950s." In 1957 he predicted the market, then around 500, could work down to 430 (it hit 419.79). Later he noted, "The bull market...
Sixteen professors and two University instructors are among 321 scholars and artists receiving awards this year from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. They are Alfred H. Conrad '45, assistant professor of Economics; Sterling Dow '25, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology; and Otto Eckstein, assistant professor of Economics...
...your money tight when anyone gives you 'the inside dope.' " Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the U.S.'s biggest brokerage house, began to run ads in 210 newspapers entitled "Danger! Inside Tip Ahead." (It was the same ad Merrill Lynch used in February 1947, when the Dow-Jones industrials were at 180 v. 605 currently.) The Securities and Exchange Commission also got into the act; it said that it had observed "indications of increased manipulative activity" and warned that "the amateur who plays the market is asking for trouble...