Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...further depletion of the world's oil reserves. Rejecting the Concorde would snub France, but so what? As for Britain, it might be the best thing we could do for it. Maybe we would force the British to face reality and pump money into more vital, potentially profit-making industries...
With a final sharp spurt, the stock market last week finished its most explosively bullish month ever. Easily shaking off some midweek profit taking, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 24 points on the last two trading days to close on Friday at 975, its highest mark since October 1973. That brought the rise for all of January to 123 points, the most for any month in history. Even more astonishing was the hectic pace of trading on the New York Stock Exchange: January rewrote every volume record in the Big Board book. The month witnessed the highest turnover...
Despite heavy flurries of profit taking, the stock market last week continued its astonishing January upsurge. Moving upward on three of the five trading days, the Dow Jones industrial average rose a total 24.32 points to close the week at a lofty 953.95, the highest mark since October 1973. In fact, since the market suddenly came alive after the new year, the Dow Jones industrials have gained a striking 101.54 points for one of the steepest rises on record...
...options did not own. As the deadline approached two weeks ago for the options to be exercised, the option sellers had to rush into the market to buy shares to cover their commitments. In turn, the buyers often turned right around and resold the same shares for an immediate profit. Another large group of stock buyers consisted of European investors. Calculating correctly that the U.S. economy is recovering from recession faster than the economies of their home countries, these foreign investors hurried to buy American stocks...
...still report a loss-perhaps $100 million to $150 million-for 1975, but almost all of that was suffered in the first half. Managing Director Toni Schmücker told TIME Correspondent Henry Muller that VW has been operating in the black since August and expects to show a profit...