Word: markets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There were green lights everywhere, but not enough momentum to turn on the afterburners that keep traders moving into the market. That last ingredient showed up when GE (GE) disclosed that S&P had cut its coveted AAA rating to AA+. Some expected the downgrade to be worse or that S&P would indicate it saw more bad news coming for the large conglomerate. That did not happen. So, the news was "better than expected" and whatever gravity had been holding stocks down disappeared. The news about GE shows how perverse the market has become and also serves...
...leading economic indicators. So is news that a car company which is already insolvent will not need money today. It will need that money tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow. There is no point in denying that much of what happened and much of what was said as the stock market reclaimed milestone after milestone was better than most of the news over the last three or four months. But, the reaction of the stock market was that the glass had become half full in a matter of a few hours. The economic pump does not work that fast...
America's car companies are still operating on the premise that the new car market will recover in a year or two. It may not rebound from its current annual run-rate of 10 million light vehicles to more than 16 million where it was three years ago, but surely it will get back to 14 million to 15 million...
...Ford could also wait and hope that it will have 15% of a U.S. car market that produces 16 million vehicle sales. It will be waiting for a day that will never come...
...take a look at the situation in the area of national income, (corporate) managers were able to increase their income by twice to three times, and shareholders' dividends increased by twice that again. But the real income of salaried workers declined by 7% to 8 %. This demonstrates an excessive market economy produced a handful of super-rich people and the income gap widened. We have to rectify the disparities in the distribution of income...