Word: friday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: Russian fears gave Wall Street another jittery ride Friday. The Dow veered wildly between a 150 point drop and a 60 point-climb, ending the day off by 114. Europe was in an ambiguous mood, too. At one point investors couldn't get their money out of stocks -- and into bonds -- fast enough. British, German and French exchanges all tumbled more than 4 percent in early trading, before word from New York helped to recoup around half those losses. Still, nobody is able to put the ruble's woes completely out of their mind. The price of gold...
...though, investigators have pieced together only a general idea of what happened at 10:35 that Friday morning in Nairobi. The most intriguing information has come from Kenyan guards who work for the private, California-based United International Investigative Services, hired to provide security in the perimeter areas of the embassy. Benson Okuku Bwaku, a 33-year-old manning the outer barrier at the building's rear entrance, has told the FBI and a number of newspapers how he encountered one of the bombers face to face...
...survey the bidding. The market low (based on closing prices) for the past five months was reached Friday. The average NASDAQ stock was down 39% from its 52-week high, and the average stock on the New York Stock Exchange was down 30%, according to Salomon Smith Barney. The average decline in stocks of very small companies (market value under $250 million) was a staggering 47%. Those are major losses, masked by the more visible Dow decline of just less than...
...Last Friday, Hillary Clinton walked out to the White House lawn and celebrated her husband's 52nd birthday as if it were his fifth and he deserved a pony and a trip to Disneyland. Joking about how old he was getting, she led more than 100 staff members in a rousing chorus of Happy Birthday...
...YORK: The markets generally love a little U.S. agression -- it makes oil prices go up. So how to explain the Dow's 250-point plunge Friday? FORTUNE Wall Street writer Bethany McLean says that traders just have too many other things to worry about. "There's a rumor that Venezuela might devalue. Russia looks even shakier today. German banks were battered last night because of their exposure to Russia, and another Japanese bank went under," she says. "There are just too many worries today that the whole crisis is snowballing...