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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel into auto parts and fill supplier pipelines. Faced with an auto shortage, buyers rushed to the showrooms. Dealers sold almost as many new cars in the first 20 days of October (338,465) as they sold in all of September, and sales for the last ten-day period were running 20% over the previous ten days. Some dealers took advantage of the scramble to hike prices, and even unsold 1959 models, in some areas, were commanding full list prices...
With the effects of the steel strike still to be felt, bright earnings news last week also came from General Motors Corp., whose third-quarter profits doubled over the same period a year ago, and boosted nine months' net to $2.55 per share v. $1.39 last year...
...nation's steelmakers, the strike's effect on earnings was all too apparent. All continued to report heavy third-period losses, though most showed nine-month results ahead of last year. Top ranking U.S. Steel had its first quarterly loss in 21 years, and its largest ever. Big Steel lost $31 million in the July-September period, but had nine months' earnings of $3.80 per share v. $3.56 last year. Other nine-month steel earnings: 1958 1959 Bethlehem Steel $1.68 $1.75 Jones & Laughlin 1.45 3.15 Wheeling Steel 1.80 2.78 Inland Steel 1.86 1.99 While second-quarter earnings...
Last week the Federal Reserve Board announced that in September outstanding consumer credit rose to a record high of $48.4 billion. New loans are well ahead of repayments, but this is usual during a period of credit expansion, just as repayments outran new loans during the recession. Of the loan total, $37.5 billion was installment credit, an increase of $485 million over August. While this was the smallest monthly increase since last March, installment credit this year is expected to rise about $6 billion v. a $5.4 billion increase...
Call options are most popular with bulls, who think the market will rise. A call is a negotiable contract giving the purchaser the right to buy stock, usually in 100 share lots, any time during a specified period running from 21 days to a year or more. For example, last June Filer sold a six-month, ten-day call on American Motors for $625. This gave the purchaser the right to buy 100 shares of American Motors at 37⅛ at any time before the option expires on Dec. 7. With American Motors now selling around 80, there is already...