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Word: stockmarketeer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Securities & Exchange Act upon Wall Street was a notable improvement in demand for margin clerks, that unsentimental class of brokerage house employes whose thankless task it is to keep tabs on customers' accounts. For the guidance of the Federal Reserve Board, which administers the credit end of Federal stockmarket control, Congress suggested a dual formula for fixing margin requirements which has been in effect since 1934. A broker could lend a customer the greater of either: 1) a flat percentage (now 45%) of a security's current market value; or 2) 100% of the lowest price-since July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Margins | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Last week, having rounded out a twelve-month rise without serious interruption, the stockmarket paused for breath. The first anniversary of the Roosevelt bull market passed with no such elated demonstration as that which carried the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages to a flat 300 on the last trading day of 1928. Indeed, the peak of the present rise was registered two weeks before when the averages touched 158.7, a clear gain of 64% from the 1935 low of 96.7. The Dow-Jones railroad stock average showed an even more spectacular gain for the year-85%. Largely because they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: State of Trade | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...nearly back to the highs of the previous fortnight. To the first flood news last week the market was impervious, though later when it was realized that first-half earnings would have to be revised downward for the industrials, utilities and railroads affected, quotations began to soften. What the stockmarket will do next is anybody's guess. But what U. S. business will do for the next few months was reasonably clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: State of Trade | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Biggest question mark confronting both business and the stockmarket was not the extent of the spring rise but what will happen after the rise has run its prosperous course. By that time the business atmosphere may be thickening with campaign politics. There is no sound historical evidence that Presidential-election years are worse for business than other years. But both business and the stockmarket will be almost pathologically conscious of politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: State of Trade | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...difference in altitude between Wall Street and the Black Hills of South Dakota-5,300 ft.-is no greater than that between the ruck of stockmarket quotations and the price of stock in Homestake Mining Co., most eminent Black Hills business. Biggest and most consistently profitable gold mine in the U. S., Homestake rose during the Depression from. $65 per share in 1929 to a point where, at more than $300 per share in 1933, it was the highest-price active stock on the New York Stock Exchange. Since then it has continued upward to the rarefied levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Homestake | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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