Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jones industrials will earn a combined $347.50 per share in 1996. If these 30 stocks sell for an average of 171/2 times earnings, we might even see a 20% gain in stocks and a 6000 Dow in 1996. But this is where the doubts creep in, owing to the sluggish economy and the silence at the cash registers...
...earnings, which sooner or later lead to lower stock prices, so Grant expects that the owners of stocks will have less to show for their investment than the owners of suits. Wall Street money manager Marty Zweig, a chronic pessimist, sees the current situation more optimistically. He thinks the sluggish economy will keep interest rates low, which in turn will drive stock prices higher, at least for a while...
...Gold. A sluggish U.S. economy won't do much for gold, but billions of Asians are heading for the jewelry stores. They have cash in their pockets and not many places to spend it, and they do not necessarily trust the local currency. So they are buying gold, which will tend to drive up the price...
RETAIL WORKERS Sluggish sales spur major layoffs, topping 300 per business...
...JAVA Neither island nor coffee, this miniaturized programming language from Sun Microsystems can add sparkle and interactivity to the most sluggish home page on the World Wide Web, the fastest growing part of the Internet. Rivals--IBM, Microsoft and even Netscape--have all agreed to adopt it as a kind of Esperanto...