Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stock market threw a record-setting party last week, but many investors failed to attend. Spurred in part by a Government report that the Consumer Price Index had risen a modest 0.2% in April, the Dow Jones industrial average reached new all-time highs on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. After a drop of 12 points on Friday, the Dow closed at 2819.91, up 18 for the week. But the gaiety was muted by the fact that broader market gauges, including Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks, remained flat throughout the week and have shown little growth all year...
...blame for the gap on disappointing first-quarter profits reported by many small and medium-size companies. Moreover, investors remain uncertain about prospects for the U.S. economy. In response to such concerns, they have sought security by buying and hoarding the blue-chip stocks that make up the Dow index...
...movies more costly -- and risky -- than ever. With an eye toward lucrative video and foreign revenues, studios are lavishing breathtaking sums on everything from stars to scripts to scenery. Hollywood now spends an average of $23.5 million to produce a major movie, up 40% from 1985. (The Consumer Price Index rose just 14.5% over the same period.) "Studios just keep piling on the cost, thinking that they will get it back somewhere," says Jerome Gold, director of the media and entertainment division of the Ernst & Young accounting firm...
...climb a hill, the chain -- and rider -- can slip. "Gear fear" is the main reason why "so many of the ten-speeds that were bought in the cycling boom in the '70s are hanging in garages," says Fred Zahradnik, technical editor of Bicycling magazine. But with new index shifting systems from companies like Shimano of Irvine, Calif., he explains, "you just push the button, hear it click, and you're in gear." Shimano's system uses special teeth and ramps to move the chain smoothly between gears...
...almost all stocks fall. But how sure are you we're in for a bear market? Or that a good deal of the damage hasn't already been done? (The Dow is near its all-time high, but many lesser stocks are off 20% or more.) "Our Fund Timing Index has risen to its highest and most bullish level in history," reported a recent issue of Norman Fosback's Mutual Fund Forecaster, which looks for a 32% rise in the market over the next twelve months. Sure, Wall Street seems gloomy these days, says Fosback, but that's the time...