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...dramatic stock sell-offdrove the Dow Jones downby more than 130 points today in the most precipitous plunge in almost four years. While the index recovered to a more moderate drop of 57 points by the end of trading, Wall Street watchers feared that today's brief stampede, coming on top of a 50-point retreat yesterday, may indicate that the bulls are losing confidence. Triggered by a sell-off in technology stocks, trading hit the Nasdaq composite index proportionately harder, pushing it down 38 points. Today's drop followed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's upbeat economic report...
Hours before the Fed announcement, the Commerce Department reported that its Index of Leading Indicators -- the chief forecasting gauge of future economic activity -- fell for a fourth straight month in May. (That hasn't happened since the last recession in 1990.) Three or more consecutive declines often signal an impending recession...
...advanced during a shortened trading session on the eve of the Fourth of July holiday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 29.05 points, finishing at 4585.15 when the market closed at 1pm. Just 117.14 million shares were traded, compared with 311.37 million last Friday. Standard & Poor's 500 stock index advanced 2.34 to 547.09, while the New York Stock Exchange composite index climbed 1.15 to 292.99 and Standard & Poor's 500 list advanced 2.34 to 547.09. Gainers outnumbered losers by about 4 to 3 on the NYSE. The Nasdaq composite rose 1.08 to 934.53. At the American Stock Exchange...
...month before, it still marks the longest consecutive decline since the 1991 recession. That followed news that after 21Ú2 years of steady and sometimes spectacular growth, the U.S. economy lost 101,000 jobs in May. The month before witnessed the third decline in a row in the index of leading economic indicators, which is used to forecast economic conditions six to nine months from now-when Campaign '96 will be well under way. "This is a pretty sizable slowdown," observes economist Victor Zarnowitz of Columbia University. "In many ways it resembles past slowdowns that have become recessions...
...product for the first quarter of this year rose at an annual rate of 2.7%, down sharply from the previous quarter's 5.1% growth; orders to U.S. factories plunged 1.9% in April, and sales of new homes dipped 2.7%; business payrolls dropped by 101,000 in May; and the index of leading economic indicators fell for the third straight month, declining 0.6% in April...