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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1954
Page
21
Traders wait for Thanksgiving Day. Dow Jones and other major indexes show muted moves. Consolidated price data from New York and Chicago exchanges note mixed results across industries with earnings and bond activity steady, while commodities and futures inch lower on light volume.
A dense OCR listing of Los Angeles area stocks and entities appears, naming banks oil firms carriers and various corporations. Names include Union Bank Farmers Mortgage Pacific Gas and Electric and Lockheed among others with scattered mentions of California petroleum firms and regional firms. The fragmentary text reads like a financial page stock table with multiple company names and prices or notes scattered through.
New York stocks climbed with numerous one point or more advances led by oil and gas issues. Gainers included Royal Dutch, Cities Service, Gimbel, and Climax Molybdenum while some firms like Scott Paper and Texas Pacific Land Trust fell. Volume neared 542 million shares as prices rose on the American exchanges.
The excerpt lists various currencies and exchange movements, noting falls and slight gains across regions. It references Great Britain, Athens, New York, Berlin, Germany, Denmark, and Latin America with unsettled figures and percentages indicating the day’s market activity.
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