Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind. He denied that the charges of 1912 and 1937 were identical. In 1912, he declared, the Government had only sought to restrain Aluminum Co. from, certain monopolistic practices; now it was trying to dissolve the company. Since 1912 the company had expanded and extended its control of the market, establishing Aluminum Ltd. of Canada "to prevent competition from abroad." The consent decree of 1912 was still in effect, returned Alcoa counsel, and there was not one charge in the Manhattan suit which if proved would not render the company in contempt of the Pittsburgh court. Even so, pursued Attorney...
...industrial issues the current downswing appeared even clearer than in the averages. Leader of the booming winter market, U. S. Steel has sold off from a high of $126 per share to a low last week of $93. Chrysler was down from a 1937 high of $135 to $106; Radio from $12.75 to about $8.75; U. S. Rubber from $72 to $52, Nash-Kelvinator from nearly $25 to $18; U. S. Gypsum from $137 to $107; General Electric from $64 to $50. Even such a symbol of stability as American Telephone & Telegraph was off 24 points from its 1937 high...
...month decline last week, the stockmarket settled to new lows for the year, wiping out on the average all gains made since last summer. From a March high of 194.4 the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages showed a drop of some 27 points. Three times the market has rallied but each time the rally petered out, each time a fresh wave of selling carried prices lower than before...
...obvious today, shouldered what should have been New York's losses. It may have been that London only got New York's 'bad' accounts, but good or bad they got them to the point where probably nearly 70% of the selling on the New York market came from London, and Europe...
...these activities the Council wishes to make clear that its sole aim is to help economics students with material that concerns them as students, not to present any partisan political views whatsoever. The Council hopes to be a market place for opinions but no purveyor of opinions itself...