Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alternately the market went to pieces on headlines about 1) peace, and 2) Congressional embargoes remaining in force; went through the roof on headlines about i) long war, and 2) Congressional repeal of the arms embargo. But the net result of all this switching back & forth between war & peace got the market nowhere. One favorite pastime was restless switching from one fancied war baby to another: Wall Street Journal's, Broad Street Gossip Column noted that Sept. 26 one broker got 60% of his commissions from switches, that one customer had switched 15 times in the last two weeks...
...place where money was going was into such ordinarily dead issues as coal stocks, which nothing short of a World War could volatilize. This World War, by pushing Germany and England out of the world coal market, was bringing U. S. coal companies some pretty fair export business. In addition, if anybody stood to profit momentarily from industrial forward buying, they did: they couldn't fill their orders. Pittsburgh Coal was traded at $8½ (up almost 300% from $2¼), Consolidation Coal at $6¾ (up over 500% from...
...lose or draw, one place no one wanted to put money was in investments for income. American Tel. & Tel., which had paced the market earlier in 1939 (high $170 1/8) when people wanted the $9 it pays per share, without realizing it wasn't earning $9 a share, lazed at $161 7/8 (Aug. 31 close: $160 7/8); yet it is now earning at the rate of $9 for the first time in two years...
...star. World War I boosted the U. S. permanently to the position of chief trader with Latin America, but in chemicals Germany was still chemistry's Big Store, with plenty of exclusive products, and when the war had ended it hopped right back to the top of the market. But World War I left the U. S. in possession, through seizure, of certain of Germany's most prized secret chemical processes, which went to the U. S. industry. Today it is possible to take Germany's market for keeps...
...biggest problem is not merely to stabilize exchange but to find it. For much of the trade given last year to the U. S., Latin Americans got the bulk of their credits from sales of wheat, coffee, meat and other agricultural products to Europe. Today, with the German market gone, and the European neutrals hamstrung by the war's disruption of shipping, Latin America has to find somewhere to sell her goods in order to get money to buy from the U. S. For the present the war needs of the Allies will help fill...