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<text id=92TT0009>
<title>
Jan. 06, 1992: Business Notes:Wall Street
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Jan. 06, 1992 Man of the Year:Ted Turner
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 64
Business Notes
WALL STREET
Flying in the Face of Gloom
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<p> If the U.S. economy is in such dismal shape, how come Wall
Street feels so good? After five consecutive daily increases,
the Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record 3101.52 last
week. The bull run has pushed the Dow index up 167 points, or
nearly 6%, since Dec. 20. That was the day the Federal Reserve
Board lowered the discount rate--which is what the Fed charges
banks for borrowing money--a full percentage point, to a
27-year low of 3.5%.
</p>
<p> Wall Street's euphoria reflected investors' hopes that
rock-bottom interest rates would help end the economic slump.
"The stock market is predicting a recovery," said Allen Sinai,
chief economist for the Boston Company Economic Advisors.
Investors, he noted, expect the fall in rates to reduce the
interest burden of debt-laden companies and thereby boost
corporate profits.
</p>
<p> But the market can be a clouded crystal ball. Although
stocks surged during the allied victory in the gulf war in
March, the economy later faltered.
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</body></article>
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