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Fed Finds Slow Pace Of Growth: Floods and Drought Fail to Halt Recovery Economic Activity Still Expanding Slowly. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 — Neither flood nor rain nor searing drought is choking off the nation's modest economic recovery, even though they have been devastating to the Midwest and the South.</br></br>The 12 Fed... | positive | 109090677 | yes | 6.666666666666667 | train | 7.0 | 0 |
Boca Raton is a town that has everything -- including many an unsavory company.: An Oasis Rich in Shady Operators. at Florida Atlantic University, named for now-defunct penny stock brokerage firm that paid $1.9 million fine to N.A.S.D.</br></br>Former Boca office of F.D. ROBERTS & COMPANY, now-defunct brokerage firm st... | negative | 108871079 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 1 |
U.S. ADDS PROGRAMS WITH LITTLE REVIEW OF LOCAL BURDENS: IN 1990, 20 NEW MANDATES Despite Bush's Deregulatory Drive, Analysts Report New Expenses for the States U.S. Adds Programs With Little Review of Burden's. Against the background of a stubborn recession and mounting financial distress in the country, the Federal Go... | negative | 108967205 | yes | 2.5 | train | 2.0 | 2 |
UNEMPLOYMENT UP TO 9.8% FOR JULY, A POSTWAR RECORD: NEW YORK RATES DECLINE U.S. Level Rises From 9.5% -- Administration Blamed by Democrats and Unions Unemployment Rate for July Rose to a Postwar Record of 9.8%. Tetl Kordus, a. carpenter, listening to an explanation of unemployment benefits at a state employment office... | negative | 122035424 | yes | 2.6666666666666665 | train | 3.0 | 3 |
Battered Dollar's Future: Domestic Politics Assuming Priority Over International Monetary Problems Economic Analysis: Dollar's Future. The statement by Arthur IF. Bums, chairman of the | Federal Reserve Board, that American interest rates have hit their lows and. will be trending upward may have •reassured European cen... | negative | 119448747 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 4 |
Treasury Prices Mixed A Day After Fed Move. Prices of Treasury securities were mixed yesterday, with longer maturities giving up a little of the gains made Tuesday in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s move to increase .short-term interest rates half a percentage point.</br></br>The 30-year bond fell fl/32, to a price o... | positive | 109347651 | yes | 6.0 | train | 6.0 | 5 |
Reply to Hartke. Senator Hartke's “Point of View” article (Feb. 27) advocating passage of his bill to restrict U.S.-controlled multinational corporations through higher taxes and other measures wrongly assumes that curbing American investment abroad would somehow reduce domestic unemployment.</br></br>In casting the mu... | positive | 119411417 | yes | 8.0 | train | 8.0 | 6 |
100-Billion Budget Deficit Projected by Ford's Aides: $100-Billion Budget Deficit Projected by Ford's Aides Under Pending Plans. WASHINGTON, March 2-)— Ford Administration officials said today that the potential budget deficit for the fiscal year 1976 had reached the SlOO-billion level and was still growing under the t... | negative | 120433542 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 7 |
Stimulus to Pay for More Summer Jobs. Citing tlie soaring unemployment rate among New York teenagers and young adults, state and city officials announced on Satur-’ day that money from the federal stimulus program would be used to expand the number of summer jobs.</br></br>Gov. David A. Paterson said $18.5 million woul... | positive | 1030619546 | yes | 6.0 | train | 6.0 | 8 |
Capital Drives Prosper. THE long recession-induced drought in college fund drives is over. Colleges across the country are again in the midst of an ambitious round of campaigns to raise record amounts of money to replace deteriorating plant and to replenish endowments eaten away by inflation.</br></br>Eight colleges ha... | positive | 123339109 | yes | 7.0 | train | 7.0 | 9 |
STOCKS UP A BIT IN SLOW TRADING: Strength Follows Report of a Rise in Factory Orders Dow Average Up 2.80 STOCKS UP A BIT IN SLOW TRADING. By GENE SMITH The stock market erased opening losses yesterday and closed moderately higher in continued slow trading, i The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day at 975.93, up ... | negative | 122812102 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 10 |
PRICES OF STOCKS TAKE SHARP DROP: Money-Rate. Economic and Political Uncertainties Are Factors in Decline DOW OFF 9.93 TO 902.02 Leading Auto Issues Reflect Market's Gloominess by Falling Substantially Stock Prices, Reflecting Uncertainties, Register a Decline of 9.93 to 902.02 on the Dow-Jones Index Percentage Gains P... | negative | 119731347 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 11 |
The Hole in Hollywood's Pocket: Bidding Wars Over A Handful of Talent The Hole in Hollywood's Pocket: Bidding Wars for Talent. While many American industries are retrenching in the face of a recession, Hollywood is on a spending spree. The studios are paying unprecedented prices for scripts, stars, directors and other ... | negative | 108439587 | yes | 2.5 | train | 2.0 | 12 |
Market Place|: Profits from higher-rate loans to low-income home buyers.. FOR a profitable mortgage-lending business, consumers with low incomes and checkered credit records marred by delinquent payments are not the usual prospects. But they are the bread and butter for the United Companies Financial Corporation of Bat... | positive | 109342845 | yes | 6.5 | train | 6.0 | 13 |
Fed Vote in May Backed Rate Rises. WASHINGTON, July 1 (AP) — Top policy makers at the Federal Reserve voted in mid-May to push interest rates higher as a way of fighting inflationary pressures, according to minutes of the discussions released today.</br></br>The Federal Open Market Committee, which sets monetary policy... | negative | 110489196 | yes | 3.6666666666666665 | train | 4.0 | 14 |
Wary Outlook On Bond Rates. || F recent history is any guide, stock market in-j|j vestors might benefit in the period ahead by EH keeping a watchful eye on the bond market. That is because bonds are keyed to interest rates, and declining rates, with a slight time lag, called the tune to the upturn in stock prices last ... | negative | 122300380 | yes | 3.6666666666666665 | train | 4.0 | 15 |
Fed Is Narrowing Target For Its Operating Policy: Will Concentrate on Reserves Available to Support Private Nonbank Deposits and Seek Growth of 6 to 10% RESERVE REFINES TARGET OF POLICY. Will Concentrate on Reserves Available to Support Private Non bank Deposits and Seek Growth of 6 to 10%</br></br>WASHINGTON, May 15 —... | positive | 119582421 | yes | 6.5 | train | 6.0 | 16 |
More Women Work at Traditional Male Jobs: Women Making Inroads on Traditional Jobs of Men. An increasing number of women in the United States are working at what used to be men’s jobs. Despite the unemployment rate, the number of women working in the United States has risen 21 million, or 95 percent, over the last two ... | positive | 122061645 | yes | 7.0 | train | 7.0 | 17 |
PRICES RETREAT FOR TAX-EXEMPTS: Yields on Corporate Issues Register a Decline Prices Retreat for Tax-Exempt Bonds. Interest rates on corporate and tax-exempt bonds moved in sharply opposite directions yesterday while other rates remained steady on light activity.</br></br>Tax-exempts continued a skid that began last We... | negative | 119486734 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 18 |
CULTURAL STUDIES: Hey, Small Spender. THE rich are always with us. But sometimes they keep a lower profile than others. In an era of global economic recession — an unshaven whisker’s edge from Depression — as the unemployment rate in the United States shuffles around 10 percent, as former fat cats like the faux-financi... | positive | 1461245544 | yes | 6.666666666666667 | train | 7.0 | 19 |
Stocks Rally As Data Hints At Slower Pace: STOCKS & BONDS; Stocks Rally as June Jobs Data Hints at a Slower Pace Hot & Cold The Favorites. Both stocks and bonds rallied yesterday after the June employment report brought investors news of slower growth and the hope that the Federal Reserve might now refrain from another... | positive | 91649221 | yes | 6.333333333333333 | train | 6.0 | 20 |
Lacking the Plaudits of 2006, the Fed Chief Takes the Oath Quietly This Time. WASHINGTON - Ben S. Ber-nanke stepped into the imposing two-story marble atrium at the Federal Reserve's headquarters and took the oath of office from his deputy. The president lauded Mr. Bernanke as "an economist’s economist” who had "earned... | positive | 1461191398 | yes | 6.0 | train | 6.0 | 21 |
BIG BOARD PAUSES TO CONSOLIDATE: Moves in Popular Indicators Are Small Dow Is Down 0.68 to End at 759.79 GLAMOUR STOCKS MIXED 653 Issues Rise While 625 Fall Turnover Slips to 12.44 Million Shares Big Board Pauses for Consolidation. The stock market moved yesterday through its third straight session of “catch your breat... | negative | 117941130 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 22 |
Reserve Chief Optimistic on the Economy -- Calls Inflation Curb 'Vital': Burns Optimistic on Economic Outlook. WASHINGTON, July 26 — The Federal Reserve Board "is in a favorable position to continue pursuing a path of moderate monetary growth." its chairman, Arthur F. Burns, told Congress today.</br></br>Mr. Burns adde... | positive | 119522744 | yes | 7.0 | train | 7.0 | 23 |
Fighter for 'Economic Justice': A Fighter for 'Economic Justice'. FOR more than a year. Auxiliary Bishop Peter A. Ro-sazza of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford has been traveling around the nation listening to stories of economic hardship — hunger, homelessness and unemployment. Earlier this month, events stru... | positive | 111264330 | yes | 7.5 | train | 8.0 | 24 |
The $1,000 Tower -- and the Hungry. Though Ronald Reagan came to office preaching slogans about big, bad deficits, what he’s preaching now is responsible fiscal policy. Forget the deficit, he says, until Government can steer the economy out of recession.</br></br>Yet when it comes to social policy, the President sudden... | negative | 122143005 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 25 |
Data Give Big Lift To Bonds: Weakness Is Seen In Report on G.N.P.; Inflation Index Low CREDIT MARKETS Bond Prices Surge on New Data. Treasury bond prices exploded and . long-term interest rates fell well below 8 percent yesterday after the Government reported that a critical inflation measure * posted a big de-. cline ... | negative | 108687365 | yes | 2.3333333333333335 | train | 2.0 | 26 |
MARKET REGISTERS BEST RISE SINCE '39: Report on President's Plans, Copper Price Rise More Than Offset Gas Bill Veto GAINS PUT AT $4 BILLION Index Jumps 6.13 to 319.01 as du Pont Soars 8 -- Volume Is 2,840,000 Copper Price Rise Cited Opening Quiet, Mixed STOCKS REGISTER $4 BILLION GAINS. Several factors—some tech* nical... | positive | 113539461 | yes | 6.666666666666667 | train | 7.0 | 27 |
Rates Ease in Weak Demand: Uncertainty On Housing. Interest rates fell slightly yesterday, though securities dealers said investor demand remains weak, particularly in the long-term bond market.</br></br>Prices of Treasury issues, which normally set the tone for the corporate and tax-exempt markets as well, opened slig... | negative | 122497966 | yes | 3.6666666666666665 | train | 4.0 | 28 |
IRREGULAR MARKET PERSISTS IN STOCKS: Price Average Ends Day With Gain of 0.41 After Early Rises Are Reduced TRADING PACE IS STEADY But Interest Shrinks to 1,059 Issues--Steels Favored First, Then the Oils Economic Factors Overlooked Fedders-Quigan Active. The stock market was highly Irregular again yesterday, indicativ... | negative | 112063032 | yes | 2.3333333333333335 | train | 2.0 | 29 |
Consumers Rush to Buy Peak-Rate Certificates: Peak-Rate Certificates Sell Fast Aims of Measures. There was something of a flurry yesterday in money-market certificates as customers rushed to savings institutions to buy the last ones permitted under old rules, allowing higher interest rates.</br></br>With introduction o... | positive | 120961115 | yes | 7.0 | train | 7.0 | 30 |
Phone Company WillSeek $350-Million Rise inState: 11-Month Wait Noted Phone Company Plans to Sek $350-Million Increase in State. The New YorlPy'S^oIe^VJIlQftbry process is not Company, citing inflation,' ar only lengthy, but also backs nounced ; plans, yesterday. Unto the future. As a result, in seek an annual rate inc... | negative | 119948250 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 31 |
INDUSTRIAL LOANS DROP $250,000,000: New York City Accounted for $197,000,000 of Decline, Reserve Board Reports. WASHINGTON, July 16— The Federal Reserve Board reported' todky the condition statement of weekly reporting member banks in ninety-four lead-1 ing. cities showed that in the: week ended Wednesday, July 9, ther... | negative | 114431579 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 32 |
Decline Continues In Business Loans: Business Loans and Interest Rates Decline Again. The main banking trends or the new year remained intact this week, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed yesterday in its weekly statistics. Business loans declined, interest rates dropped, money-supply growth remained stalled a... | negative | 120480933 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 33 |
How Not to Handle Prosperity. Get this thing over with, this worst ever of mayoral campaigns. Nothing about it is appealing, least of all the candidates. There is no fun, no excitement, no charm, no charisma and nothing in the way of new ideas. If this were a prizefight the referee jvould stop it amid a cascade of boos... | positive | 109807830 | yes | 8.0 | train | 8.0 | 34 |
Those Strange Market Turns: Arbitraging Play Is Cited Those Strange Stock Market Price Fluctuations. This chart shows the difference between the value of the S SP 500 futures contract and the corresponding value of the S.& P. 500 index itself The futures contract price derives from the S.& P 500 index plus a premium. T... | positive | 111264958 | yes | 7.0 | train | 7.0 | 35 |
UNDERWRITERS FORM SINGLE GROUP TO BID ON STATE BOND ISSUE: Investment Bankers Undecided on Possible Impact of Lawsuit and $1 Billion Budget Deficit UNDERWRITERS FORM GROUP ON STATE BOND. Investment bankers, pondering Governor Carey’s disclosure of a $1 billion budget deficit and informed of a lawsuit against the state ... | negative | 122968015 | yes | 3.3333333333333335 | train | 3.0 | 36 |
Sidelights: A Mild Word of Caution. With the. stock market vigor-, oug and Ute economists generally 'optimistic, an occasional voice of. pessimism or caution can barely be ..heard.</br></br>Yesterday, Lionel D. Kdie & Co„ investment counselors'and economic consultants, had a few reservations about the upturn. Based on ... | positive | 114482869 | yes | 6.0 | train | 6.0 | 37 |
Exit Strategies: The Rich Are Different. They Know When to Leave. Workers invest alongside bosses. The risks they face aren't equal. The Rich Know When to Leave. BUSINESS booms are famous for hiding underlying problems in an economy. It takes a recession to make them obvious. Now, like melting snow, this recession Is u... | positive | 92235015 | yes | 6.0 | train | 6.0 | 38 |
RATES INDECISIVE IN CREDIT MARKETS: But Slight Rise in Demaned Is Noted for Some Issues. . Interest rates moved indecisively yesterday as the credit markets remained in their basically trendless pattern of recent weeks. Nothing in the news or technical situation was “I think you’ll see only more jockeying around betwee... | positive | 119571366 | yes | 6.0 | train | 6.0 | 39 |
Treasury Prices Take Fall; Trading Is Reported Quiet. I Treasury prices ended sharply lower in quiet trading yesterday, dragged down by a growing view] that the Federal Reserve will not cut j short-term interest rates again this' summer. j</br></br>The market has been re-evaluating the prospects for a rate cut since! a... | negative | 109444240 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 40 |
Market Place: Selling Waves: What They Do. WHEN the stock market moves downward, the influence of moderate, but sustained, selling on a particular stock can be extraordinary.</br></br>For example, Howard Johnson, the restaurant chain, tumbled 30 per cent — from 51% to 36—on trading of only</br></br>Capital Gains Resear... | negative | 117419086 | yes | 2.6666666666666665 | train | 3.0 | 41 |
Washington: The Art of Balancing the Boom.. WASHINGTON, June 3—The day after William McChesney Martin, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said in New York this week that he saw a series of “disquieting similarities between our present prosperity and the fabulous twenties," he had lunch with Secretary of the Treasur... | positive | 116866946 | yes | 7.0 | train | 7.0 | 42 |
Economic Slowdown Catches Up With Nascar. umpiy seats were common last month at the Brickyard '100 in Indianapolis, where attendance was about half that of 2007.</br></br>After years of jam-packed races, sky-high television ratings and record merchandise sales, Nascar has seen attendance at nearly every track slip this... | negative | 1461213251 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 43 |
CHANGES NARROW IN STOCK TRADING: Impact of East Coast Dock Strike and New Smoking Report Are Factors VOLUME IS 5.44 MILLION Key Averages Reflect the Mixed Market Tone -- R.C.A. Most Active CHANGES NARROW IN STOCK TRADING. The stock market marked time again yesterday as traders pondered the impact of an East Coast dock ... | positive | 116768985 | yes | 6.5 | train | 6.0 | 44 |
Incomes Rise 0.4%, but Spending Is Weak. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (AP) — Incomes grew four-iemhs of 1 percent in August, but consumers increased their spending by only one-lemh of 1 percent, the Government said today in a report showing that consumers are not providing their usual lift to the economic recovery.</br></br>Du... | positive | 108685779 | yes | 6.0 | train | 6.0 | 45 |
Do New York City Employees Merit More?: Background They Are Overpaid They Are Losing Ground Outlook. Are i^'ew York City’s employees overpaid, or are they already behind other workers and losing ground to inflation every day?</br></br>The labor unions, naturally, take the latter view as the bus and subway workers did T... | positive | 123820188 | yes | 6.0 | train | 6.0 | 46 |
Factory Orders Down 2.3%: Sales of Homes Also Declined In April Factory Orders Decline. 2.3 percent in April from March, the Government reported today, in what private and Government analysts saw as a clear reflection of the continuing recession.</br></br>The Commerce Department, which announced the figures, also repor... | negative | 122021845 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 47 |
BIG BOARD KEEPS ITS LOSING WAYS: After Mustering a Small Rally, the Market Closes With a Modest Decline DOW AVERAGE OFF 1.42 Large Blocks Are Dumped -- T.W.A. Is Down 4 and Heads Active List BIG BOARD KEEPS ITS LOSING WAYS. The stock market mustered a small rally in early trading yesterday, then slipped back into its l... | negative | 118664217 | yes | 3.5 | train | 4.0 | 48 |
PRICES OF STOCKS LOSE SOME GROUND: Day's Changes Largely Minor as Selling Continues, Index Dipping 0.12 Point NEWS DEVELOPMENTS FEW But Dividend Announcements, Failure of Lewis to Clear Up Coal Picture Are Felt. A middle-of-the-road'course was pursued yesterday by the stock market in trading- on the New r>rk Stock Exch... | negative | 105900640 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 49 |
Allies on Bush: How Will He Deal With the Deficit and Gorbachev?. LONDON, Nov. 14 — President-elect Bush will find his West European allies uncertain about two things when he begins meeting with them in Washington this week: how he intends to reduce the American budget deficit, and how the alliance should respond to ra... | negative | 110423623 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 50 |
Economist Sights End of Decline In Bond Yields Before Labor Day: UPTURN SIGHTED FOR BOND YIELDS. SEATTLE, May 9—A former Federal Reserve Bank economist predicted here today that the present declining trend in bond yields would end before Labor Day. Dr. John</br></br>K. Langum, who addressed' the annual conference of th... | positive | 116048605 | yes | 7.0 | train | 7.0 | 51 |
New Weakness Seen In New Jersey Jobs: NEW JERSEY Jobless Rate Still Exceeds U.S. Average. New Jersey lost a significant number of jobs last month as the state’s unemployment rate remained above the national average/ suggesting continued sluggishness in the economy, according to new data.</br></br>Using a new method to ... | negative | 109622255 | yes | 3.5 | train | 4.0 | 52 |
Senate Banking Group Bids Fed Ease Monetary Conditions Slightly. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—The Senate Banking Committee, in a cautiously worded report, urged today that the Federal Reserve Board make a slight shift toward easing monetary conditions and also raise slightly its targets for growth of the monev suddIv in the vea... | positive | 122752412 | yes | 6.0 | train | 6.0 | 53 |
Bond Yields Continue To Climb: Federal Funds Rate Up Bond Yields Move Up In Light Trading Activity New Issues Down. The unequaled break of the credit markets showed no sign of stopping yesterday as bond prices continued to plummet and interest rates again climbed to their highest levels on record.</br></br>Traders in T... | negative | 121293143 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 54 |
TREASURY BILLS FALL BELOW 5%: But Rates Recover as Fed Steps in Traders Still Expect a Downtrend TREASURY BILLS FALL BELOW 5%. Three-month Treasury bill rates dipped below 5 percent yesterday morning for the first time since last June, and then the Federal Reserve sold some of these short-term Government securities and... | negative | 122881489 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 55 |
Reports on Business Conditions Throughout the U.S.: New York Chicago San Francisco Philadelphia Boston Cleveland Dallas Minneapolis Richmond Atlanta. The Federal Reserve Board’s index of department store sales eased to 112 per cent in the week from 116 per cent a year ago. The index reached 122 per cent in the precedin... | negative | 116582949 | yes | 3.5 | train | 4.0 | 56 |
Major Indexes Close Lower After Fed Chief's Testimony. Stocks ended lower yesterday as Wall Street gave a bearish reading to comments from the Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, about the economy and the stock market.</br></br>The Dow Jones industrial average fell 33.56 points, or three-tenths of a percent, to 1... | negative | 110076274 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 57 |
Slump Forcing Up Albany's Aid to Poor. ALBANY, Jan. 27 — In blaming New York’s fiscal slide on the national re- I cession. Gov. Mario M. Cuomo has been highlighting the corrosive effect of hard times on state revenues. But the recession is also applying great pressure to the spending side of the state budget by increas... | positive | 108872259 | yes | 8.0 | train | 8.0 | 58 |
Unemployment Insurance Aiding Fewer Workers: Unemployment Insurance Aiding Fewer. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 — The unemployment insurance system, the main Government program meant to ease the pain of recession, is much less effective than it used to be, largely because the Federal Government and the states have let it wither r... | negative | 108440953 | yes | 3.3333333333333335 | train | 3.0 | 59 |
CREDIT MARKETS Short-Term Rates May Drop Further: Seasonal Bank Factors Cited Tight Money Is Urged. Short-term interest rates may decline early next year for seasonal reasons, many analysts say, but beyond then, their forecasts are more uncertain. More accurate forecasts will not be forthcoming until more is known abou... | negative | 121620369 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 60 |
There's Nothing to Fear From Mondale. More than 150 points higher! Dreyfus Liquid Assets yields are higher than the average yields of bank money market accounts. Just one extra bank charge can make the Dreyfus advantage even greater!</br></br>Unlimited free checks ($500 minimum). Start with just $2,500. For today’s hig... | negative | 122368347 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 61 |
Art Dealers Cite Softened Market, but Find No Cause for Alarm: Art Dealers Say Market Softens a Bit. Slump, recession, plummet, drop and doomsday are words often heard or heard too often to characterize not only the economy, but also virtually every other thing today. But these words are too extreme in their meaning to... | negative | 120594176 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 62 |
Blumenthal on Jobs, Inflation, Cities: Treasury Secretary Describes Carter Policy Making Treasury Secretary Blumenthal Talks of Jobs, Inflation and Problems of the Cities. WASHINGTON, April 10 — The tape recorders were whirring, the food wax plentiful and the topics ranged from energy to the stock market. The occasion ... | positive | 123092244 | yes | 8.0 | train | 8.0 | 63 |
Consumer Spending: Is the Upsurge Solid?: Economic Recovery May Be At Stake. That’s good news for Administration officials, who in this election year had proudly pointed to the strong pace of consumer buying—at least until April. At that point, a two-month shopping hiatus ■set in, signaling a depressant on second-quart... | positive | 122638398 | yes | 7.0 | train | 7.0 | 64 |
Drivers Rediscover An Old, Old Friend. THE masses of America, hit with inflation, gas lines and soaring new-car prices, have searched and found a commuter car they can afford with ease.</br></br>It gets 26 to 32 miles to the gallon, has a 6,000-mile or six-month guarantee on the engine, is simple to repair, and runs an... | negative | 121234498 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 65 |
In the Great Job Desert, Some Hidden Oases: Down but Not Out. THE news on the job front has not been good Employers have cut hundreds of thousands ot positions this year in response to the weakening economy, especially after Sept 11, and there arc more reports of corporate retrenchment almost every day The unemployment... | negative | 92051499 | yes | 2.6666666666666665 | train | 3.0 | 66 |
BIG RALLY ERASES MONDAY'S LOSSES: Many Leaders of Recent Dip Recover 2 to 6 Points-- Average Gains 5.40 BEST RISE IN 4 MONTHS Early Surge Leaves Ticker Behind, but Day's Volume Ebbs to 2,400,000 Long Decline Recalled BIG RALLY ERASES MONDAY'S LOSSES. Prices swept upward yesterday in the widest stock market gain in four... | negative | 113484765 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 67 |
DEFENSE SUPPLIER RAISES PROFITS 5%: General Dynamics' Gain in First Quarter Made on Sales Rise of 12.9% COMPANIES ISSUE EARNINGS FIGURES. Despite the recession, the General Dynamics Corporation in the first quarter this year increased its sales by 12.9 per cent and earnings by 5 per cent over the corresponding period l... | negative | 114606222 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 68 |
Economic Scene: Capital Crunch: Capitol Quandary. BS the credit crunch real? Are banks denying creditworthy businesses the loans they need to invest the economy out of the recession?</br></br>The idea certainly appeals to the White House, which is in hot pursuit of a villain or three to explain why the stalled recovery... | negative | 108813853 | yes | 3.3333333333333335 | train | 3.0 | 69 |
FEDERAL RESERVE APPROVES A RISE IN DISCOUNT RATE: Half-Point Increase to 5% Ordered by Board Day After Phase 3 Begins EFFECTIVE ON MONDAY Move Underlines Prospects of Anti-Inflation Efforts Lifting Money Costs Rate Is a Follower Effect of Expansion Discount Rate Lifted Half-Point 'Passive Adjustment' Stressed. WASHINGT... | negative | 119707541 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 70 |
Stock Market's Problem: Not Enough Buyers: Investors Alienated Despite Economyomy. The research department at Bache & Co. felt the stock market was ripe for an upturn a few weeks ago, so Joseph Cucuzza, Bache’s chief technical analyst^ flashed an intermediate-term buy signal over the firm’s wire system.</br></br>As soo... | negative | 119646798 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 71 |
Hong Kong Flu the Chief Culprit as Holiday Sales Lose Impetus. Unless Christmas business improves tomorrow and on Tuesday, retailers in many areas of the nation will be disappointed with the season’s results. Last week, there appeared to be a lack of animation in the pace of sales, as though there were a deflation in t... | negative | 118390292 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 72 |
HIGHLIGHTS: Some Government Inflation Victories and a Sour Prophecy. The Government escalated its attack on inflation last week, winning headlines and pledges from industry to do its bit. But even those leading the attack do not expect any quick success.</br></br>Barry Bosworth. director of the Council on Wage and Pric... | negative | 123685919 | yes | 3.5 | train | 4.0 | 73 |
YIELDS GO DOWN IN BOND MARKETS: Federal Reserve's Decision Cutting Requirements Sparks the Decline TAX EXEMPTS INVOLVED Prices of Corporate Issues Rise, Then Settle Big Supply Cited Bond Market Yields Dip As Tax Exempts Ease. ' The Federal Reserve’s decision to cut reserve requirements against savings deposits lowered ... | negative | 117860105 | yes | 2.5 | train | 2.0 | 74 |
PORTER GIVES PLAN: It Seeks Cost of Living Cuts to November '47 Level, Other Controls EXCESS PROFITS TAX ASKED Wolcott, Assailing Proposals, Says President Has Powers Now to Check Inflation TRUMAN REQUESTS A PRICE ROLLBACK. WASHINGTON, July 29—President Truman asked Congress today for price rollback authority and other... | negative | 108294042 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 75 |
The Stock Market Is Still Pressing the Reset Button. DEPENDING on whom you ask, the recent stock market sell-off can be attributed either to inflationary fears or to the slowing economy. But some people say it’s also tied to a longer-term problem facing investors: the fact that five years after the stock market bubble ... | positive | 92889631 | yes | 8.0 | train | 8.0 | 76 |
Money Supply Up Sharply: Increase in Week Of $2.7 Billion Was Unexpected Narrower Measure Also Higher Money Supply Up Sharply. The Federal Reserve Board announced a sizable increase in the money supply yesterday, providing what analysts said was even more reason for the Fed to have raised interest rates recently in an ... | positive | 121016514 | yes | 6.0 | train | 6.0 | 77 |
New Fear in Silicon Valley: New Fears In Silicon Valley. Joseph Costello, the president of SH>A Systems, at a company meeting. The software company’s public stock offering has been put on hold because of the plunge in the stock market.</br></br>SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25 — The stock market plunge has dismayed the nation bu... | negative | 110724309 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 78 |
Dow Surges 44.01, To Record 1,971.32: Dow Surges 44.01, to Record 1,971.32. So far, Wall Street loves 1987. The stock market had one of the best days in its history yesterday as the Dow Jones industrial average soared to a record level that is within reach of the vaunted 2,000 mark.</br></br>“Today is amazing!” said Ja... | positive | 110854121 | yes | 8.5 | train | 8.0 | 79 |
Traders Ponder Fed's Moves as Dow Fails: Traders Ponder Fed's Moves as Dow Falls. How gradual is gradual? Is Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and famed gradualist, preparing the markets for speedier increases In interest rates, greasing the stock and bond markets' already slippery decline?</br></br... | negative | 109276520 | yes | 3.3333333333333335 | train | 3.0 | 80 |
Jobs for Summer Go Unfilled as Teen-Agers Shun Low Wages. ATLANTA, June 3 — As the summer job season approaches, many employers in cities and suburbs around the nation are encountering a conundrum: Despite statistics showing high unemployment among teen-agers, especially blacks, there are more openings than there are y... | negative | 110943528 | yes | 2.0 | train | 2.0 | 81 |
Long-Term Treasury Yields Soar: Rates on Bills Fall As Stocks Are Sold. Prices of long-term Treasury bonds took their worst battering yesterday since the days just before the 1987 stock market crash, although bargain hunters prevented the interest rate on the benchmark 30-year bond from moving higher than its level of ... | positive | 108512860 | yes | 7.0 | train | 7.0 | 82 |
Martin Assailed for Cooling Off Inflation at Expense of Builders. WASHINGTON, July 31 (AP)—Senator Joseph S. Clark, Democrat of Pennsylvania, was sharply critical today of William McChesney Martin Reserve Board, for trying to cool off inflation by “taking it out of the hides” of homebuilders and small-business men.</br... | negative | 117551914 | yes | 3.5 | train | 4.0 | 83 |
Republicans Worry About Effects of Jobless Rate. Unemployment rates in Congressional election years and subsequent losses of seats in the House of Representatives by the President’s party</br></br>Year/ President's Party Highest Monthly Unemployment Rate in First Half of Year Next to Last Last Unemployment Unemployme... | negative | 121996065 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 84 |
OUTLOOK ON THE ECONOMY: Wow! I'm at Greenspan's Desk Ben Bernanke's (Fictitious) Chats With His Predecessor. C After 18 years in office, Alan Greenspan [will hand over the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve to Ben S. Bernanke early next year. Probably no other single event in 2006 is more likely to affect the future e... | positive | 92995903 | yes | 7.5 | train | 8.0 | 85 |
Deficit Put at $220. 7 Billion, Less Than Forecast. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — James C. Miller 3d, President Reagan’s budget director, disclosed today that the Federal budget deficit for the fiscal year 1986, ended Sept. 30, amounted to $220.7 billion.</br></br>While that is $10 billion less than the Administration predicte... | positive | 111030201 | yes | 7.0 | train | 7.0 | 86 |
Despite U.S. Recession, an Optimistic L.I. Forecast. HAUPPAUGE, L.I. — Long Island’s economic tempo can be expected to improve modestly in 1983 despite the continuing national recession, according to Chemical Bank’s annual economic forecast.</br></br>“While some big national industries have been faltering, the success ... | positive | 122078994 | yes | 6.5 | train | 6.0 | 87 |
Economic Scene: Some risks are more manageable than others. Can we design markets to change that?. UNEMPLOYMENT is up. Housing sales are weak-I enlng. Oil prices continue to fluctuate, and the stock market remains volatile. There’s no doubt —we live In risky times, yet our tools for managing risk -are limited.</br></br... | negative | 92517699 | yes | 3.3333333333333335 | train | 3.0 | 88 |
Consumer Prices Dip 0.1% But Food Costs Show Rise: U. S. Consumer Prices Dip 0.1% But Food Costs Show an Increase. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—The United States Consumers’! Price Index dropped a tenth of a per cent between mid-Novem-j ber and mid-December, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported! today. It was the second conse... | negative | 112980384 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 89 |
Sidelights: Analysts Ponder Dividend News Biggest Tax Collection Utility Industry. There was a flurry of favor-1 able dividend actions yesterday and the stock market went down. On Tuesday, there had been a spate of disappointing dividend news and the market went up. Analysts can make of that what they will, and they pr... | positive | 116289432 | yes | 6.0 | train | 6.0 | 90 |
Optimism Gives Way To Caution on Stocks. Stock market Investors are edging Into 1985 as they cast nervous backward glances at 1984—a puzzling and disappointing year for equities—and wonder if history will repeat itself. Thus, contrary to the usual start-of-the-year optimism, caution reigns as the operative word on Wall... | negative | 111171798 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 91 |
THE AUTOMAKERS: Detroit, With Its Sales Falling, Is Urged to Help Spur Economy. Yesterday in Detroit, Stephen P. Yokich of the United Auto Workers, left, chatted with William Clay Ford Jr., chairman of Ford Motor, and Dieter Zetsche, chief executive of Chrysler. At rear were Representative David E. Bonior and Lt. Gov. ... | negative | 92077654 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 92 |
Income Rose In November, U.S. Reports: 0.8% Gain Doubled Consumer Spending. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (Bloomberg News) — Personal income rose eight-tenths of 1 percent during November, the biggest gain since June 1996 and double the size of the month’s increase in consumer spending, the Commerce Department said today.</br></... | positive | 109757978 | yes | 7.0 | train | 7.0 | 93 |
ALONG THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS OF FINANCE. Financial circles thought last week that the stock market might be peeking around that highly interesting corner where it frequently has found itself since late 1946. The market is now practically plumb on that sidewise line from which every important move has originated, in on... | negative | 105797212 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 94 |
Banks Raise Prime Rates to 21 % As Some Other Interest Levels Fall: Prime Rate Raised to 21 % From 21% Prices of Treasury Issues Up Doubts on Holding Advances Rate Reduction in Michigan. Most large banks raised their prime corporate lending rates yesterday to 21^ percent from 21 percent. But there were increasing signs... | negative | 121370154 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 95 |
What Inflation?. 239,000 jobs. And the average hourly wage rose by nine cents, the biggest one-month jump ever recorded, a level “noticeably above the inflation rate,’’ as The New York Times reported.</br></br>Pandemonium on Wall Street! The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond leaped a quarter of a point, finishing at 7... | positive | 109597098 | yes | 7.5 | train | 8.0 | 96 |
Economic Scene: Bank Foresight And Hindsight. SBN his testimony before the Joint Economic Com-Bj mittee of Congress this week, Paul A. Volcker, H chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, ran into bipartisan crossfire over the failure of the banking regulators to deal with the problems of the Continental Illinois Bank and... | negative | 122450120 | yes | 3.5 | train | 4.0 | 97 |
BONDS ARE STEADY ON LIGHT VOLUME: Rate Cut by Maine Bank on Commercial Loans Spurs Only a Modest Rally Credit Markets: Prices Hold Steady. The money and capital imarkets held steady yesterday, resting after their pronounced moves toward higher prices and lower interest rates earlier in the week.</br></br>There was some... | negative | 117953289 | yes | 4.0 | train | 4.0 | 98 |
Civic Austerity. The budget cuts planned by Mayor Beame for the next seven months portend drastic reduction in municipal' , services, resulting in certain hardship unless the city ' agencies, the unions and individuals cooperate in boost* ing productivity.</br></br>The Mayor’s acknowledgment lhat the city faces a budge... | negative | 119999656 | yes | 3.0 | train | 3.0 | 99 |
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