Word: dows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hallways of the White House to the halls of a major teaching hospital. What a welcome change! The American public is far more interested in the activities of the intern whose job involves saving lives than in those of the intern who played naughty games with our President. ANN DOW West Deptford...
...slowdown, or growth recession or whatever, will bite much harder into corporate profits. They are already dwindling, to the grief of investors who saw the Dow Jones industrial average plunge from a July 17 high of 9337 to an Aug. 31 low of 7539, at least partly because it became obvious that earlier expectations of a continued smart rise in profits were wrong. Wyss expects after-tax profits to drop about 2% this year and stay essentially flat in 1999, perhaps rising a nearly invisible...
...anything stop the financial panic that has swept from Asia to Russia to Latin America? On Wall Street last week, jittery traders dismissed the Federal Reserve's quarter-point cut in interest rates as too puny and sent the Dow Jones industrial average plunging 448 points in two days. In Washington State, farmers watched helplessly as their grain piled into huge drifts for lack of Asian buyers. In slumping Brazil, Ford and General Motors, which only recently completed new plants in the country, had to cut production drastically. And the future could be grimmer still, according to the International Monetary...
...converted from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA earlier this year when the market was sky high, why not do it again? You have to pay taxes on the value of your portfolio at the time of the big switch, so now that the Dow has gone south, it might be wise to roll back into a traditional tax-deferred IRA and then instantly reconvert into a tax-free Roth, potentially lightening your tax load come next April 15. But don't wait too long to roll over: the IRS could amend the rules this fall to restrict...
...Standard & Poor's 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average both declined by about 10 percent between July and mid-September, roughly the same drop as Harvard's endowment...