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...Dollar once again dropped to postwar lows against the Japanese yen, closing at 98.30 yen in Tokyo and fell to it lowest level this year against the German mark . . . Dow Jonesindustrial average rose 22.02 points, closing at 3674.50 . . . N.Y.S.E.'s composite index up 0.03, to 246.54 . . . NASDAQ stock-market composite index fell 2.29, to 701.30 . . . American Stock Exchange down 0.15, to 423.55 . . . Gold fell $2.10, to $383.40on the Commodity Exchange in New York . . . The 30-year Treasury bond closed with a yield of 7.59 percent, up from 7.58 late Tuesday. parparpar
...Dow Jones industrial average rose 5.83 points, closing at 3,652.48 . . . N.Y.S.E.'s composite index up 0.17 to 246.51 . . . NASDAQ stock-market composite index fell 2.78 to 704.07 . . . American Stock Exchange down 1.02 to 423.70 . . . Gold fell $1.20 to $385.50 on the Commodity Exchange in New York . . . The 30-year Treasury bond closed with a yield of 7.58 percent, down from 7.60 late Friday.parparparparDON'T FORGET to play the TIME Daily contest. The latest question: What's the best (worst) scam you've run into on the Internet or any electronic service? Put your favorites in the Business Folder, under...
...affected. The falling dollar can also have a big impact at home. It can make things more expensive in our own neighborhoods, raising the price of everything from Nikons to Nintendos. The stock market is already telling us it doesn't like this slump in the greenback. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 139 points last week, including a 62-point drop on Friday...
...Federal Reserve launched an international effort to halt the dollar's steady slide, but the rescue was largely seen as a failure since the greenback rallied only briefly and the Dow industrials and bond markets plummeted. Earlier in the week currency traders pushed the dollar below the 100-yen mark for the first time since World...
While gays have faced uneven results in the political arena, especially at the national level, they have made great strides in the seemingly less inviting world of private business. Hundreds of companies, including IBM, Eastman Kodak, Harley-Davidson, Dow Chemical, Du Pont, 3M and Time Warner, have specific policies banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. Many, ranging from the Wall Street law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to the insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, provide health or other benefits for gay employees' partners. Such old-line companies as Union Carbide and Colgate-Palmolive hire consultants to teach...