Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economists examined the fine print of the March trade report, they discovered yet another discouraging fact: the monthly deficit with Japan stayed steady at $4.5 billion. Since that represents nearly half the total U.S. deficit, even the most optimistic Administration official would have to admit that the trade imbalance is likely to remain a stubborn problem for years to come...
DESCRIPTION: United States imports, exports, trade deficit, April 1987-March 1988; color illustration of Uncle Sam looking over bow of ship...
Suspense is a rare commodity in the politics of Communist Eastern Europe, but last week Hungary provided a genuine cliff-hanger. When 986 participants at the country's first national party conference in 31 years gathered in Budapest's trade-union meeting hall, word went out that the official agenda, bearing the imprimatur of Party Leader Janos Kadar, had been quietly shelved. As the conference began, the key question was whether Kadar, 75, might also be shelved. In his opening speech, Kadar himself acknowledged the need to "rejuvenate" the party leadership...
...markets had few points of connection or conflict in the old days when Chicago stuck to its traditional business of trading futures in such commodities as soybeans, corn and pork bellies. But since 1972, when its markets began trading futures contracts based on Treasury bills and currencies, Chicago has produced an explosion of new financial instruments. Chicago's three major markets (the Board of Trade, Mercantile Exchange and Board Options Exchange) now trade futures and options based on everything from Eurodollars to municipal-bond indexes...
...registering their disapproval in droves. In a survey conducted earlier last week by Sindlinger & Co., a marketing-research firm, just 4% of the households polled said they planned to buy stock, compared with 15% just after the crash in October. Fear of the volatility often attributed to program trading was the second most often mentioned reason for avoiding the market, after disillusionment about insider trading. Individual investors have apparently developed a belief that the stock-market game is fixed in favor of the big players. Says Arthur Levitt, chairman of the American Stock Exchange: "It's a national disgrace that...