Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sliding stock market last week broke through its 1960 low in heavy trading and plunged on down to 566.05 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, the lowest point in nearly nine years. Then, just as Wall Street braced for the worst, the market ran up two days of substantial gains before it eased and ended the week about where it had started...
Worse Performance. The current stock market is performing far worse than in other election years. Contrasted with an average gain of almost 7% in the first ten months of presidential-election years, this year's market is down about 15%. Before the 1948 election, the market was sluggish, went into a slump after Truman's surprise victory, picked up again in 1949. In 1952, the market shot up on Eisenhower's victory. In 1956, the market picked up in expectation of Ike's reelection, was hit briefly by the Suez crisis at election time, then picked...
...University still has the largest endowment of any educational institution in the nation. In the middle of August, the market value of securities held totaled nearly $621 million, although the recent stock market decline has some-what lessened this figure...
...frenzy was upsetting other gold markets. Hong Kong's gold and silver exchange closed down trading after gold soared as high as $46.64 an ounce, and speculators bid as high as $49.38 on the black market. Gold trading on the Paris Bourse more than doubled. The Johannesburg stock exchange had its greatest activity in gold shares since the pound was devalued in 1949. and the Johannesburg Star headlined: DOLLAR VALUE ON FREE MARKET: 76?. Stocks in gold-mining companies soared...
Married. Imogene Fernandez y Coca, forty-fiveish. elf-eyed TV, stage and nightclub comedienne; and Actor King Donovan, 41; after a summer stock stage-marriage tour in The Fourposter; both for the second time; in Manhattan...