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...last, the bulls returned to Wall Street. For the first time since June, investors got a rise out of the stock market on Monday-the Dow-Jones industrial index spurted 15 points for the best single-day gain in 15 months. At week's end the Dow-Jones had risen 39 points, to 814, regaining $25 billion in paper values. As if to celebrate, hundreds of Wall Streeters observed "Mexico in New York Week" by watching an open-air performance by Mexican folk dancers and a troupe of musicians aptly called Los Toritos-The Little Bulls...
Last Feb. 9, prices on the New York Stock Exchange, as measured by the Dow-Jones industrial index, hit an alltime high. Ever since, the market has generally been sloughing off, with blue chips leading glamour stocks on the way down. Yet some stocks have more than held their own since Feb. S. A sampler of losers and gainers since the day of the historic high...
International Tone. By any other standard, the '66 market is bad enough. Since February, the industrial average has declined on 80 trading days v. gains on only 53; during the first 20 Big Board trading days in August, 15 ended up with the index off. Where the blue-chip stocks had been taking the brunt of the beating since February, last week glamour stocks inevitably began to follow them down. Xerox lost 15⅝ in a day, Fairchild Camera fell 14⅜, and Motorola on the final day of trading plunged 23¾ points, from...
...longer be true that when the Street sneezes, foreign bourses catch pneumonia. But foreign traders still suffer at least psychological symptoms from any U.S. decline. London's exchange last week hit a three-year low of 294 on the Financial Times industrial index, and British brokers admitted that they needed New York to "set the tone for recovery." The Swiss exchange, after peaking as New York did in February, is off 18%. Amsterdam's market has lost 25% of its values this summer, and West Germany's markets are off 20% since February. Paris' bourse...
...years. Since January, the prices consumers pay for goods and services have shot up at a 3½-a-year pace. Last week the Labor Department reported that consumer prices rose .4% in July-the sixth monthly gain in a row. This lifted the nation's consumer price index to a record 113.3, or 13.3% above the base average of the years 1957-59. On top of that, wholesale prices-which normally foreshadow the future course of consumer prices-gained .7% in July after four months of relative stability...