Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That ordinance required developers to obtain a permit from the city's Rent Control Board before they removed property from the rental housing market for conversion to condominiums or institutional use, or demolished housing stock...
...curbstone explanation for last week's bizarre price swings was the continuing crisis atmosphere in world affairs. But traders seemed as confused as anyone about the market behavior. Said one Zurich banker: "It's crazy. Everyone is acting on instinct, and buys or sells according to his feelings that...
...Monday move was intended to cool speculation, as well as prevent what market analysts suspect might be an attempt by a small number of ultrarich investors, operating anonymously through foreign banks, to "corner" the world market for silver. One much mentioned speculator in this context is Dallas Megamillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, though he insists that he has no such intention. The corner would occur if the investors could buy so many silver future delivery contracts that they would wind up with enough of the metal this March to manipulate world prices...
...intended to hold down prices only for silver, jittery investors assumed that gold trading would be restricted next by the exchange, and as Monday drew to a close the selling began. Unaware of the pressure that had built up overnight in New York, investors in Hong Kong, the first market to open for business on Tuesday, continued to bid up both gold and silver. But prices on the London and Zurich markets, which opened hours later, plunged. The slide was accelerated by West German bank supervisors, who ordered banks in that country to limit their investment in bullion and other...
...Pool, which comprises that nation's three largest commercial banks, voted to shut down all trading in gold both Thursday and Friday afternoons. No one seemed to have a guess whether the price in Zurich would shoot through the roof or plummet through the floor when the Swiss market reopens for full and unrestricted business this week...