dull market

Perhaps today's dull market may be a pause before a change in direction."

In most cases, the doubts shown by dull markets have been resolved with good news.

But the stores group, Kingfisher shone out like a beacon in the dull market.

But when dull markets keep on going like the Energizer bunny, there does appear to be a pattern.

Dull markets could reflect an uncertainty over the state of the world that has frustrated investors and voters.

Perhaps dull markets are correlated with discontent with politicians.

Never saw such a dull market.

They had seen bull markets, bear markets, and dull markets.

Mr. Jusko, who has two secretaries and some 1,500 clients, said he receives 50 to 75 telephone calls daily in a dull market.

Historically tea has been a fairly dull market, dominated by trade interests - two arguments against the London Fox's efforts to excite interest in a tea futures contract.

A FLURRY of takeover rumours together with promise of a breakthrough in the GATT talks provided a kickstart to a dull market going nowhere fast.

But that is the way things always go; if you force a sale on a dull market, I don't care what the property is, you are going to make a poor business of it, and you can make up your mind to it.

Prices of stocks and bonds zoomed within minutes, but by the next day it was back to dull markets, and the Dow Jones industrial average ended the week up 39.85, to 2,633.66, a four-month high but not far above the level reached minutes after the Fed acted.

Donald Fine, chief market analyst at Chase Asset Management, said that yesterday's skeletal staffs at Wall Street firms were getting drowsy from the lack of activity and that traders were "eagerly awaiting tomorrow's economic statistics to see if they will provide some excitement and new information to an otherwise dull market."