1) The Dow-Jones Industrial Average was created by
a) Charles H. Dow and Samuel T. Jones
b) Charles H. Dow alone
c) Charles H. Dow, Ronald Standard, and Lawrence Poor
d) Dow's stepdaughters Jane and Martha Bancroft, on instructions from Clarence Barron prior to his acquisition of the company in 1902
e) Meyer Wolfsheim
2) The Dow Theory, according to which there are three phases to a primary bull market and three to a primary bear market, was created by
a) Charles H. Dow and refined and sustained after his death in 1903 by his understudy William Hamilton
b) Charles H. Dow and Alexander Hamilton
c) Elmer Bernstein, Carolyn Leigh, and Max Shulman
d) Charles H. Dow and Henry Varnum Poor
e) all of the above
3) Charles H. Dow was
a) the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal
b) the Tony Award-winning producer of the musical comedy "How Now, Dow Jones?"
c) the first husband of steel heiress Lorraine Jones
d) partners with two other reporters, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser
e) two of the above
4) Standard & Poor is a financial firm that
a) traces its history to the 1941 merger of Poor's Publishing and Standard Statistics
b) has Poor in its name as a warning to over-zealous investors
c) is a credit rating agency that made waves three summers ago by lowering the credit rating of the US government
d) publishes an index of the stock market performance of the 500 largest corporations in the United States
e) all of the above except b
5) Lehman Brothers
a) arranged the sale of Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees
b) was, in the person of Meyer Wolfsheim, then executive vice president, behind the fixing of the 1919 World Series
c) quintupled its assets by selling the Dow Jones Industrials short in August 1929
d) traces its origins to a dry goods store in Montgomery, Alabama, founded by German-Jewish immigrant Henry Lehman shortly after he came to the US from Bavaria in 1844.
e) none of the above
-- DL
1 b
2 a
3 e
4 e
5 d
Posted by: Lou Belmont | June 08, 2014 at 02:57 PM