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...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...
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...
...international effort to bolster the dollar failed resoundingly today -- the currency rose slightly, then fell back. President Clinton was clearly frustrated by the greenback's predicament, pointing to a robust American economy that should increase the traders' faith in the dollar. Wall Street responded by running for cover: the Dow Jones industrial average fell 62 points...
...Dow Jones industrial average down 62.15 points, closing at 3636.94 . . . N.Y.S.E.'s composite index down 3.74, to 244.55 . . . NASDAQ stock-market composite index fell 5.89, to 694.96 . . . American Stock Exchange down 4.95, to 426.30 . . . Gold up $1.40, to $391.10, on the Commodity Exchange in New York . . . The 30-year Treasury bond closed with a yield of 7.49 percent, up from 7.46 late Thursday...
...Dow Jones industrial average down 25.68 points, closing at 3699.09 . . . N.Y.S.E.'s composite index down 1.68, to 248.29 . . . NASDAQ stock-market composite index fell 11.98 to 700.78 . . . American Stock Exchange down 1.91, to 431.31 . . . Gold up $0.20, to $389.70, on the Commodity Exchange in New York . . . The 30-year Treasury bond closed with a yield of 7.49 percent, up from 7.46 late Wednesday...