Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jones average of 30 industrials, which plunged a record 508 points on Monday, was up 4.48 to 1,954.91 by noon on Wall Street. In the first half hour of trading the closely watched index had slid about 22 points and by 11 a.m. it was up 33 points...
...value of all U.S. stocks fell $107.79 billion, wiping out nearly half the recovery of the previous two days, according to the Wilshire Associates 5000 Equity Index of stocks. The drop represented 4.2 percent of the total valuation of $2.4 trillion...
...closely watched index has now recovered about half the losses suffered from Monday's historic 508-point collapse, which amounted to a 22.6 percent decline in value...
...measured by Wilshire Associates, index of more than 5000 stocks, the market gained $183 billion in value yesterday after falling more than $500 billion Monday...
...Treasury Secretary suggest a new role for gold in international economic affairs. To be sure, Baker was not advocating a return to the gold standard, in which the price of the precious metal would be fixed in all the major currencies. But the Secretary said countries might use an index of the worldwide prices of gold and other heavily traded commodities as a partial guide in coordinating economic policies. If that index was rising, for example, it would be a sign of inflationary pressures, and nations might decide jointly to raise interest rates to prevent rapid price increases...