Sentence examples for driving stock from inspiring English sources

As a sheep farmer he became a pioneer "overlander," driving stock from Sydney to Adelaide.

Dramatic events sometimes have a special influence on the psychology of investors, driving stock prices down despite improving business conditions.

Self-made billionaires like Kazuo Kengaku earned notoriety as "shite" (pronounced she-tay) or market movers who reaped hefty profits by driving stock prices up and down.

LONDON — Factory activity worldwide stalled last month as new orders tumbled, heightening fears that the global economy might be heading for another recession and driving stock markets lower.

More than any economic or corporate profit news, the war is driving stock, bond and oil prices, investors and Wall Street analysts said.

So, regulators reluctantly promised early this summer not to sell any more government-owned shares on the exchanges for fear of driving stock prices down even further.

Corporate deals and strong earnings have been credited with driving stocks higher this year, and news on Tuesday continued that trend.

"The thing that's been driving stocks is rising confidence," said James W. Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management.

[C5.] Climbing Oil Prices Send Stocks Lower Oil prices increased, driving stocks lower and leaving the Standard & Poor's 500-stock indowndown for the year.

He says he believes that the economy will muddle along, "and that it will actually turn out to perform better than the market has anticipated," driving stocks higher.

C1 Another High for Oil Prices Oil prices climbed to an all-time high, driving stocks lower and leaving all three major market gauges in negative territory for the year.