Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the U.S. food industry has no difficulty in preparing such foods, and can certainly do so at a profit, provided there is sufficient consumer demand. It also proved that the diet was effective in lowering the men's blood levels of cholesterol-generally accepted as an index of potential damage to coronary arteries and therefore of the risk of heart attacks...
...Altogether, 1968 was a fairly disappointing year for blue-chip industrial shares. Propelled by political as well as economic events, the Dow-Jones average bounced erratically, but gained only 4.3% for the year. Broader-based indicators of Big Board securities rose about twice as much. The New York Exchange index of all 1,249 listed common stocks climbed 9.4% and Standard & Poor's index of 500 issues rose 7.7%. On the American Stock Exchange, a haven for low-priced and often volatile issues, prices soared an average...
...sitters, $3 men's haircuts and $72-a-day hospital rooms. Housewives complained about $1.99-a-lb. sirloin, and the President-elect of the U.S. yearned to find a good 50? hamburger. Price increases were so pervasive that not a single component of the Government's price index declined. Transportation rose 4.2%, food 4.5%, apparel 6.6%, medical care 7.2%. By Washington's official reckoning, which probably understates the cost of living in many large cities, it now takes $122 to buy goods and services that a decade ago cost...
...justification, stockbrokers worry that investors will switch out of stocks and into bonds because the difference in yields is so enormous. This month, the average yield on Triple-A corporate bonds climbed to 6.47%, while the average dividend paid by the 500 stocks in the Standard & Poor's index was down to 2.89%, the lowest since February...
...strongly after President Johnson announced on March 31 that he would not run for re-election and that he was making new overtures to end the Viet Nam war. The average sagged in August but soon rebounded in what brokers called "Nixon rallies." At year's end, the index was approaching its historic peak of 995.15, set in February...