Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happened to the insider-trading scandal? Black Monday, that's what. Since Oct. 19, crash has replaced crime as the top story on Wall Street. Some traders have even hoped that the markets' continued fragility might persuade the Government to delay further insider-trading probes lest new revelations drive stock prices even lower. No such luck. U.S. District Attorney Rudolph Giuliani maintains that even though the spotlight has shifted elsewhere, the investigations are proceeding at full speed. Says the Manhattan-based prosecutor, who has led the crackdown on Wall Street crooks: "Whatever the state of the market...
...holdings to 12.3%. Icahn helped forge a deal between Pennzoil and a committee representing Texaco's shareholders to settle the conflict for $3 billion. Texaco's management blasted the plan, but may have to go along if its shareholders approve. Icahn stands to reap rich profits, since Texaco's stock could surge once the firm emerges from bankruptcy...
...over-the-counter stock market has not had many good days lately. So when prices were going up last Wednesday, the last thing traders needed was an unexpected 82-minute shutdown of the computerized NASDAQ system that provides quotations on over-the-counter stocks. The mysterious malfunction helped reduce that day's trading volume to 82.5 million shares, just over half the average activity...
Uncertainty. Volatility. Confusion. Those have become the watchwords of the postcrash economy. For weeks some prognosticators have warned that the stock collapse of Black Monday presaged a recession. Others have argued just as vehemently that the crash was primarily a Wall Street event that will have little impact on the economy. No wonder consumers have been cautious and bewildered and the financial markets have swung wildly between hope and despair...
Brown said he hoped to put another shelf in Somerville's Davis Square station, and eventually to put a staffed kiosk in the Porter Square station. But he said Harvard Square was not likely to get a shelf because it would be hard to stock such a busy station...