Word: slump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September, rose to 106.9 by year's end. High-grade municipal and corporate bonds gyrated just as wildly. Smart bankers who gauged the right times to buy and sell turned a pretty penny. Some were also able by buying bonds relatively cheaply during the war slump to improve the yield of their portfolios...
Another 13.2% high was reached in 1934 when the stock market was on its way up, but it was only the next year that the percentage took a took point drop along with the market and general business slump...