Word: stock-market
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Longer-range, the worries for the U.S. economy are more global than homegrown. Japan is the major world trouble spot. Since 1990, it has suffered from sluggish output growth, a stock-market depression and a credit crunch. Now chaos in Southeast Asia endangers Japan's exports and loans to the area. Japanese investors, desperate to raise cash, might someday dump holdings of American securities; that would knock down stock and bond prices and shoot up U.S. interest rates. Weinberg sees a 1-in-100, but rising, chance of that happening--but contrasts that with a 1-in-1 million risk...
...hated to give up the stock-market theory I was working on. It was based on the premise that investors gradually lost confidence in the market by patronizing New York City restaurants. In pricey New York restaurants these days, there are two types of patrons whose presence--almost always in packs--can make a diner who's celebrating a special occasion wonder what would have been so bad about just making do with Chinese takeout. One type consists of men dressed all in black--a group the New York Press, a downtown weekly, has called the "Comme des Knuckleheads crowd...
...magic cola itself. He boosted Coke by stripping it down to its trademark. When he took over, Coke had flat growth and unprofitable businesses--ranging from shrimp farming to wine--that were draining the company's cash, not to mention a serious Pepsi challenge. On his watch, Coke's stock-market value rose from $4 billion to some $150 billion. Goizueta himself became a billionaire through his Coke stockholdings...
...Little Biff and Betsy are just a few years from college? No sweat. Vacation house? Go ahead. Heck, chuck all your financial concerns, including those about social time bombs like a deficit-ridden federal budget and the financial squeeze on Social Security. Omnipresent and omnipotent, the stock-market god will take care...
...president of her own business-forms company in a Cincinnati, Ohio, suburb, says every dime of her portfolio is in the market. "Every night when I download the prices on my holdings, I just sit there in awe of all the money I'm making," she marvels. The benevolent stock-market god--the true promise keeper of our generation--is paving the way in green for her to retire in a few years and fulfill a lifetime fantasy of spending six months a year in Europe...