Business & Finance: Stock Market

Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom—louder and louder rumbled the big bass drum of Prosperity where they were beating it (TIME, Nov. 17) in Wall Street. The great bull days became a great bull week, the greatest in 20 years. In ten post-election days, 18,717,732 listed stock shares changed hands in the Big Bull Ring. Of these millions, over eleven and a half went in the week of Nov. 10, more than ever before save in the panicky May weeks of 1901. A total of 689 issues were dealt in—a new high for all time. Wall...

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