Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vice chairman of the Goldman, Sachs International investment firm. Intervention, however, can be used only for fine tuning a currency's general direction. Too much intervening can disrupt a country's domestic economy. West Germany in particular is getting weary of issuing so much of its own currency to trade for dollars, a process that can lead to inflation...
...next turning point may come this Friday, when the Government releases the U.S. trade-deficit figure for November. If the deficit shrinks from October's $17.6 billion to $15 billion or less, the financial markets are likely to take this as evidence that the dollar has fallen enough to begin remedying the problem. But if the gap remains wide, the beleaguered dollar may need an even more costly rescue mission...
Politics will taint everything this year. But Reagan should be at least an equal act in the grand finale, an act that could produce the INF treaty ratification, a Moscow summit, a new Supreme Court Justice, a ringing budget and free-trade debate and a firming attitude against terrorism...
...bond trader, lower unemployment means faster growth, more inflation and higher interest rates. So bond prices slumped, and that triggered a drop in stocks. Investors were also concerned because the dollar started dipping again on Friday and because they feared that Government figures on the mammoth U.S. trade deficit due for release this week would show little or no reduction...
...Brady report says that while the Black Monday crash was triggered by fundamental problems like the trade deficit, it was exacerbated by the complex and poorly controlled interactions between the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which dominates the trading of stock-index futures. If dangerous stock dives are to be avoided, the Brady group contends, Chicago and New York will have to play by similar rules. The commission's central recommendation is that one agency -- preferably the Federal Reserve -- coordinate the activities of all U.S. financial markets. Currently, the Securities and Exchange Commission regulates the stock...