Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Retail-sales analysts predict that the spartan stores will continue expanding, as consumers look for new ways to beat inflation. Says Walter Loeb, food and retail analyst with New York's Morgan Stanley: "We have seen waves of warehouse stores before. A & P unsuccessfully tried it a few years ago. But now they are doing better and selling fresh produce, some dairy products and meat...
...sales of $66 billion last year and produces two out of every three cars coming off U.S. assembly lines-nearly three times as many as second-place Ford-the company's profits as a percentage of sales have ebbed steadily over the past decade. Wall Street analysts predict that this year the giant firm could lose up to $800 million. Smith's main job will be to restore GM's profits on sales of small cars back to the levels it once enjoyed on bigger models...
...naysayers who predict Canada will crumble might be wise to wait--at least until after the World Series. You never know how a sporting victory can reverberate through politics...
...Plumbers Association, the steward issue is "merely political"--the real issue is the management of fringe benefits. Meanwhile, Thomas A. Sullivan, the group's associate director, accuses the union of trying to "cloud our offers," adding "we're ready to settle-they aren't." Neither side will predict when the strike will end, and neither side is optimistic...
Like many market masters, Granville has a system. He uses the volume of stock transactions to help predict major swings. "When you throw a ball into the air, it has upward momentum," he explains. "Before the ball drops, the upward momentum drops sharply. The ball is still rising, but the upward momentum is falling. You know that it will reach its top soon. In the same way, when the majority of my indicators signal a new bottom or top, I know to flash the buy or sell signal...