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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the rising popularity of shareholding, the new army of dividend receivers suffers from serious disadvantages compared with former years. For one thing, it costs more and more to get on the dividends list. From 1950 to 1959. rapidly rising stock prices cut the average yield to a new buyer of the stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average from...
...opposite of a call, is favored by bearish speculators. The put is an option giving the purchaser the right to sell 100 shares of stock at a set price at a future date. Last June, Filer sold a put option on Boeing Airplane Co. giving the buyer the right to sell 100 shares at 37⅝ by Dec. 2. Boeing is now quoted around 30, but the buyer of the put can still exercise it at 37⅝. After deducting the $400 costs for the put and commissions, the purchaser has a profit of about...
...purchaser loses when the stock does not move enough to cover the costs of the put or call, or when it moves the wrong way. Then the buyer loses the amount he paid for the option. While puts and calls are primarily used for speculating, they are also being used more to limit losses, protect paper profits, and for tax advantages. Primarily, they are for the stock market sophisticate who can afford to lose the premiums he must pay to speculate...
...broadening of the small-car trend. Leading the way were the U.S. compact cars which attracted so much interest that European car makers began to wonder about how much competition they would be. Show goers were fascinated by their comfort and big-car features. Said one prospective buyer: "They're simply bargain-priced luxury cars...
...market. If that happens, the market for new cars would be hard hit; if a motorist cannot get a fair price for his old car, he will not be eager to trade it in on a new car. On the other hand, some optimistic secondhand dealers argue that the buyer in the $2,000 class will prefer a roomy, late-model car to a compact. "The man who has been in the habit of buying a luxury car will not buy a compact," says Kansas City Salesman Henry Frick. "He'll still come to us -especially...