Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...average briefly pushed past 2700 only three days later, on Thursday afternoon, and again on Friday before pulling back a bit to close at 2685.43. Nonetheless, at that level it posted a record gain of 93.43 for the week. The irrepressible market took in stride news that the trade deficit rose 12%, to a towering $15.71 billion in July, and it was buoyed by a report that wholesale prices increased at an annual rate of only 2% last month. Stock-trading volume was enormous; Tuesday's New York Stock Exchange turnover of 278 million shares was the second biggest ever...
...current bull market is unlike any in the memory of the most seasoned stock traders: there has never been one that has whirled up so fast for so long with so little interruption. Nothing so far has been able to stop the bull. Not worries about gargantuan budget and trade deficits. Not a sharp drop in the value of the U.S. dollar between 1985 and mid-1987. Not even the stock-market equivalent of the law of gravity, specifying that the most rapid advances ought to be broken now and then by a substantial downward correction in prices...
...poll, women candidates scored higher than men on such issues as - health care and education, but voters still preferred having men deal with trade and arms control. Americans least comfortable with women candidates: country folk and those over...
...more than 200 gangs with some 12,000 members, an increase of about 25% from 1980. There were 187 gang-related homicides in 1986, a 24% increase over 1985. So far, this year looks even worse. Drive-by shootings are more common than smog alerts, and the burgeoning trade in crack cocaine has turned gangs from stray hoods into multimillion-dollar enterprises equipped with Uzis and AK-47 assault rifles...
...country's resources do not determine her place in the world economy. That lesson is proved every time protections is resort to yelling at the Japanese and the South Koreans: "Stop that! You're not allowed!" Both countries carry much more than their weight in the arena of international trade. Factors such as culture, leadership, and the education of a country's workforce are far more important than the number of workers or barrels...