Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whipsawed. Dow theorists admit that though their signals are late, better late than never. But few market experts put much faith in hindsight. A classic example of the Dow Theory's operation came in 1929, when, after industrials had dropped 80 points, the Dow signal finally flashed. The market eventually went considerably lower, but by that time thousands of investors' accounts had been wiped out; 1937 saw a similar occurrence. Actually, anyone heeding the Dow Theory's buy and sell signals since 1929 would have been wrong 15 times out of 24. On those occasions, he would...
Buying Growth. Balancing the good news against the bad, many Wall Streeters felt that the market had gone too high too fast toward the end of 1959, could stand the current correction, which may carry it even lower. But the correction was not the start of an old-fashioned bear market that would sweep all stocks down. Most analysts thought that the market was feeling for a firm base from which to rise again. Investors, notably mutual funds, were still concerned about the fact that stock yields continue to be well below yields on bonds, supposedly were not buying...
...complaints of the textile industry threaten to split the Administration on the problem of the State Department's free trade stand v. the Agriculture Department's farm price supports, which encourage farmers to grow so much cotton that the huge surplus must be dumped on the world market. Last week the Department of Agriculture, which by law must make the U.S. cotton surplus available to world markets at competitive prices, asked the Tariff Commission for an 8? per lb. duty on cotton imports. Such a tariff would make up the gap between the low cost of raw cotton...
...Russians dumped 18,000 tons of tin into a saturated world market, hoping to create price chaos. But Malaya, Bolivia and Indonesia, which depend heavily on tin exports, complained bitterly, forced the Reds to halt their dumping...
Into Position. Pechiney is busily moving into position to take advantage of the Common Market. As Europe's standard of living rises, demand for Pechiney's chemicals and aluminum is bound to rise apace. When exports slack off, the company can always intensify its efforts to sell at home, where aluminum consumption is still low (7 lbs. per person v. 21 lbs. in the U.S.). When the domestic market slackens, it need only expand its export market. There, it sells aluminum at about 8% lower than U.S. and Canadian competitors...