Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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On Tuesday alone, the Dow dropped a breathtaking 26.45 points, its worst single-session loss since January 1974, when the last recession was pushing the nation into its steepest economic slide since the Great Depression. The very next day, as worried investors around the country hurried to unload their falling...
Your report "Fears for Begin's Health" [Sept. 24] is regrettable for the serious misinformation it contains. On the basis of the most authoritative examination of the real facts, I am able to inform your readers that contrary to your correspondent's assertions, the Prime Minister did not...
In other markets, there were similar cries of pain as huge price gyrations roiled trading in everything from metals and corporate bonds to livestock and even futures contracts for wheat and soybeans. In his office just off Chicago's LaSalle Street, the heart of the Windy City's financial district...
As if to underscore their approval, investors in London promptly chopped a sharp $13 off the price of gold; during the preceding weeks it had climbed by more than $100 to hit a momentary alltime high of $447 an ounce before settling back to about $385 at the beginning of...
The sheer scariness of it all was what set off the really huge midweek selling spree on the Big Board. The dumping spread, irrationally, not only to the commodities and futures markets but also to the international currency centers. Out of fear and uncertainty, traders who had been buying dollars...