Word: funston
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...BOARD TRADING will increase to daily average of 4,500,000 shares by mid-1960s v. 3,000,000 today, predicts New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston. Listed shares will increase from current 5.5 billion to 8.5 billion in 1960s...
...presidents of both the New York Exchange and the American Stock Exchange denied that stocks were booming on borrowed money. Said the New York Stock Exchange's G. Keith Funston: "There is no evidence of excessive use of credit in the market...
...that he first bought may seem pretty stodgy beside the greater gains possible in more speculative companies. He knows that top growth companies such as Polaroid and Texas Instruments, which have increased several hundred percent in a few years, were once considered risky. Says Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston: "We have no objection to people buying into small and little-known companies-provided they know what they are doing...
WEINBERG'S network of friends served him well during World War II, when he worked as a mobilizer for Donald Nelson, persuaded dozens of top businessmen to take Washington jobs, including "Electric Charlie" Wilson, G. Keith Funston and Ralph Cordiner, on his plea that "Government service is the highest form of citizenship." Since then, Weinberg has nudged George Humphrey, Neil McElroy and many others into Government service. He has achieved the status of a de luxe one-man employment agency. "There is a guy waiting outside right now," he told a recent visitor, "who is president of a multimillion...
...action would act as a damper on speculation, changes in margins have usually had almost no effect on the market (see chart). After a brief dip last week, the market closed the week at 510.13, only 11 points under the alltime bull market top. Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston complained that the Fed's action was unnecessary, pointed out that despite the six months' rise, customer credit on non-Government securities was $4,226,000,000 in June, virtually the same as a year...