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Created in 1884 by Charles Henry Dow, the first editor of the Wall Street Journal, the Dow Jones average of industrial stocks took its modern form in the late 1920s, just in time for the market crash and the Great Depression. Then as now, the index is an average of stock prices of companies in major American industries...
...these dazzling catalogues afford an index? Because, dear consumer, you will be forced to read them page by page, item by item, lest you miss the quintessential Christmas gift for Aunt Susie-or yourself. Big and small, plain and fancy, the catalogues skimmed randomly seem like an incantatory litany of affluence: bulletproof vests and see-through lingerie, blackout candles and Waterford chandeliers, buffalo steaks, Texas chili and Italian cheese, Taos Indian drums, underwater cameras, solid-fuel rockets, night-vision goggles, woks, socks, building blocks, coffee roasters, toasters, coasters, cashmere sweaters, G strings, food processors, wine vinegar, wine racks and wine...
pliant, indecisive playboy who preferred the French Riviera to Beirut, though that was not his reputation in Lebanon. However, White House aides noted approvingly last week that Gemayel had come to his meeting with President Reagan well prepared, with his points outlined on index cards. Said a senior State Department official: "He knows what he wants, he knows he needs help and he is under
...Jones industrial average reached 1,037 last week for its highest close in nearly a decade, shares of New York's Citicorp gained 5⅞ points, to 38%, and Chase Manhattan was up 5½ points, to 54%. Prices of the 24 bank stocks included in an index compiled by the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods investment firm are 46% higher than their summer lows. Despite the outwardly convivial atmosphere, however, an undercurrent of unease ran through the five-day A.B.A. session. Rattled by the rising toll of corporate bankruptcies and the threat of defaults on international loans to such fiscally...
Critics quickly dubbed the policy Volckernomics and accused the Federal Reserve of fostering recession and unemployment through high interest rates. In its primary goal of curbing inflation, the approach has been dramatically successful. The annual rate of inflation as measured by the consumer price index has gone from 15% in the autumn of 1979 to about 5% at present. In September, prices charged by producers actually declined at an annual rate of 1.7%. Market watchers have in fact been noticing a shift in Federal Reserve policy for several weeks. The central bank has chopped the important discount rate, which...