Word: stockly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What has pushed the market up, in the eyes of most Wall Streeters, is not easier credit but the fear of a new burst of inflation. Many a Wall Streeter shares the Fed's worry, feeling that anxiety over inflation has lifted stock prices too quickly on the basis of current earnings. This has caused a sharp change in the "spread"-the difference between stock and bond yields. As stock prices have risen, bonds have dropped (see below); while the return on blue chips has fallen to 3.8%, the best bonds now yield more than 4%. In the past...
...Irving Kahn, partner in J. R. Williston & Beane: "When people pay 40 and 50 times earnings for a stock, they are multiplying when they should be adding...
...expected to protect the small, supposedly uninformed investor, its margin-raising action was not necessary. The small investor has been doing very well. For the past year the professional traders, large investors and stock specialists have been selling more than buying, in the belief that the market would go lower. But the small investor, as shown by the odd-lot (under 100 shares) records, has been buying more than selling, added a total of 13,679,000 shares to his holdings by midyear. In June many small investors began to cash in their profits. Since then, they have been selling...
...Rexall lost $1,250,000, and its stock plunged from a postwar high of $35 to $4. "Jus"' Dart, onetime All-Big Ten football guard (Northwestern '28 and '29), had fumbled by selling off too many of Rexall's outmoded, wholly owned stores before he could open enough modern Rexall franchise stores to replace them...
...market this year (from 2.4% in 1954), the company hopes to make a comeback this fall with a new small car, priced under $2,000. But to keep going, Studebaker must also refinance $55 million in bank and insurance company notes, some now falling due, hopes to issue preferred stock for part...