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- Jan. 23, 1989: Business Notes:Financial Markets
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 23, 1989 Barbara Bush:The Silver Fox
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- FINANCIAL MARKETS
- Here Come The Bulls
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- <p> Rising interest rates usually bring gloom to the stock
- market, since they can presage a slowing economy. But stocks
- are doing the unexpected. Last Friday the Dow Jones industrial
- average closed at 2226.07, its highest level since Oct. 16,
- 1987, the Friday before Black Monday. It was up 32 points for
- the week and 57 points since Jan. 1.
- </p>
- <p> Why the bullishness? The economy's proven resilience is one
- reason, but many investors simply cite the bandwagon effect: no
- one wants to miss out on a good rally. Even some small
- investors, who have generally avoided the market since the
- crash, have joined the fresh stampede.
- </p>
- <p> These are heady days as well for the U.S. dollar, which has
- risen 4% against the West German deutsche mark since the
- beginning of the month. The run-up is a side effect of rising
- interest rates, which the Federal Reserve has allowed to climb
- as a means of preventing inflation. But the U.S. and most
- European central banks decided last week to restrain the dollar
- by intervening in the currency markets. Reason: U.S. progress in
- narrowing its trade deficit is likely to be hampered by too
- strong a currency, since it increases the prices -- and reduces
- the competitiveness -- of American products.
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