Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were so pleased to see Garrison Keillor's fabulous piece on Murray's restaurant in Minneapolis, Minn. [ESSAY, Oct. 13], which referred to our magic and elegance. Unfortunately, the blurb on Time's index page indicated that Keillor was writing about a "landmark restaurant closing." Though we are a landmark restaurant, we certainly are not closing, nor did Keillor's Essay say so. Please let your readers know we are open and intend to stay in business for at least another 50 years. Come visit us! LINDA LINDQUIST, Marketing Manager Murray's Minneapolis, Minn...
...Nikkei 225 index staged a dramatic turnaround from Friday's 2.2 percent loss, coming back Monday with a surge of 1200.80 points, or 8 percent, to close at 16283.32. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index leapt 462.42 points, or 4.6 percent, to 10419.75, following up on Friday's 236.55-point gain...
...gesture seemed too small with a full-blown panic possibly still ahead. At half time of Monday Night Football, the NASDAQ stock market, a sponsor, stated its closing value as it usually does, but failed to mention, as it usually does, the index's change for the day. In this case, it was down a record 116 points...
...Employment Cost Index, which the Fed chairman watches very closely, rose 0.8% in the third quarter of 1997, the same as the previous quarter. It's a signal that labor costs for businesses are not picking up even though the unemployment rate hovers at the lowest level in a generation...
...floor of the NYSE, traders had been edgy for days. It didn't help matters that on Friday, the U.S. market fell even though Hong Kong's battered Hang Seng index had rebounded sharply. That rebound was widely dismissed as a "dead-cat bounce," a graphic trader's term that refers to the notion that even a dead cat will bounce a little if it falls far enough. Arthur Cashin, vice president of PaineWebber and director of the firm's floor operations, concluded that "there was more work to be done on the downside...