Word: dowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prices down so rapidly that the interest rate on long-term Treasury bonds rose to 7.1%, up 6.9% on the day and more than a point above the start of the year (bond prices and yields always move in opposite directions). Stock prices got dragged down too; the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 115 points, to a close...
ALAN SIMPSON (R., Wyo.) Stock owned jointly with wife includes Boeing, Chrysler and Dow Chemical...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Two days after the Federal Reserve postponed a vote on interest rates pending new information on the health of the economy, surprisingly low unemployment numbers sent the Dow spiraling into its seventh-lowest point drop in history. The government announced Friday that the unemployment rate in June fell to 5.3 percent as businesses added 239,000 workers to the payroll last month. That figure sharply exceeded the expectations of economists and investors. It promptly sent stock prices into a tailspin: the Dow industrials closed 114.88 down at 5,588.14. "Today's numbers were totally unexpected," reports TIME...
...Dow Jones industrial average fell 24.75 to 5,628.03. As an SEC investigation comes to a close, the technology-stock Nasdaq composite index fell 24.56 to 1,183.06 to end at its first close below 1,200 in more than a month. The index has lost more than five percent of its value since June 5. The NYSE's composite index fell 1.34 to 355.58; the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell 3.10 to 662.06; and the American Stock Exchange's market value index fell 1.54 to 588.99. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a margin of almost...
...Dow industrials advanced 20.32 points to 5,648.35. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by about 7 to 5 on the New York Stock Exchange, with a moderate volume of 375.29 million shares as of 4 p.m. The Standard & Poor's 500 fell 0.10 to 661.96, while the Nasdaq dropped 3.81 to 1,179.27. And in London, gold finished...