Word: pricing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...split will help ensure a lively market in its stock by keeping per-share prices within reach of ordinary investors. Lately, that reach had be come a stretch. Long the highest priced issue traded on the New York Stock Exchange, IBM in the past 20 months had swept from $320 to $677.50 by last week's meeting. Even after the split takes effect this week, IBM will still be competing for top-price honors with the Big Board's current second most expensive stock, Corning Glass Works, which closed last week...
...times 1967 earnings. And why not? After the last split, a 3-for-2 deal in 1966, when the stock was trading around $370, IBM shares took only eight months to 1) weather the worst general market break in four years and 2) climb past its pre-split price...
...industry after another, U.S. manufacturers are finding their markets at home and abroad besieged by aggressive foreign firms. Some 10% of the autos, 12% of the steel, and 31% of the shoes now reaching U.S. consumers are imported. "We simply can't compete on price," says Chairman Russell De Young of Goodyear Tire & Rubher Co., explaining bluntly why 300,000 of the 467,000 motorcycle tires sold in the U.S. last year were foreign-made...
...trade system. Chances of improvement seem slim. Congress has shelved the President's proposals to curb tourist spending abroad; rising costs of the Viet Nam war could forestall Government promises to curtail its spending overseas. Thus, it was hardly a surprise last week when the free-market price of gold -a seismograph of foreign anxieties over the dollar-inched up to $39.60 per oz., its peak since the April 1 reopening of the London gold market...
...favor came with enough strings tied around it to make U.S. acceptance dubious. The offer is conditional upon U.S. abstention from any new restrictions on imports or subsidies for exports. And several of the 16 countries insist that Congress must also repeal the so-called American Selling Price system for fixing tariffs on such items as benzenoid chemicals, sneakers, canned clams and woolen knit gloves...