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Stock prices swung . . . er . . . crazily. Down 83 points on Tuesday, as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average, after Clinton's Monday night TV preview. Marking time Wednesday. Thursday, sequential chaos: up 35 points early, then down around 40, then recovering to a loss of only around 10. Friday, up, down, sideways and up at the end, for a gain of almost 20 points on the day -- but a loss of roughly 70, or 2%, for the week. Fundamentally, stock traders were highly nervous. They were worried that the higher taxes Clinton proposed would, at least in the short...
...CAPTION: DOW JONES AVERAGE...
Some stock traders might even be tempted to use the still taboo word boom. The Dow Jones industrial average last week shot up 4%, to a record Friday close of 3442. The 132-point rise in this blue-chip stock index for last week alone equaled its increase for all of 1992. Even more striking, bond prices rose enough to send the interest rate on long-term Treasury bonds down to 7.17%, the lowest since 1986 (the higher a bond's price, the lower its interest yield). Apparently bond traders, who usually do not trust Democrats, think that Clinton really...
...YORK--Stock prices fell modestly yesterday after traders deployed computerized sell programs. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials closed down 9.73 points...
...should be no surprise that the companies leading the $5 million campaign against Question Three are the very same industries that manufacture virgin plastic packaging. These industries (92 percent of the opposition money comes from out-of-state) include major corporations like Dow and Dupont, who of course will lose if the initiative wins--at least in the short term...