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Finally, we would like to clarify the manner in which CDA does interact with both the CUE and Confi information. CDA is a searchable index to these webpages which is not unlike the systems provided by major web search engines like Yahoo! CDA provides links to the CUE and Confi websites, as other search engines do, and does not duplicate their content...
...first time Thursday finished above 7,000. Just four months after topping 6,000, the 30-stock average finished the day at 7,022.44, up 60.81 points. The good news spilled over into other markets as well: The Standard & Poor's 500 and the New York Stock Exchange composite index both set new records. Can anything stop this expansion? The economy is continues to grow at a moderate rate, keeping inflation and interest rates low. As a result, investors continue to pour money into mutual funds: Stock and bond funds received an additional $27 billion last month. The six-year...
Conservative investors favor Treasury securities for safety--they are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government--but during inflationary periods their value automatically erodes. Not TIPS: the note's principal is adjusted daily to keep up with increases in the Consumer Price Index, and payments are made twice a year based on that adjusted value. Thus if inflation remains at its current level of roughly 3% over the next two years, the principal value of a $100,000 TIPS would rise to $103,000 by the end of 1997, and the annual interest payment would amount...
SETTING SUN FOR JAPANESE STOCKS Japan's economy purportedly grew fastest of all the industrial countries last year, had no inflation and near zero interest rates. Ideal ingredients for a booming stock market. Yet Japan's stock market is rolling like a snowball down Mount Fuji. The Nikkei 225 index dropped more than 10% so far this year, to 17689,and some 55% off its peak of 38915, reached...
...labor demands drive up wages and prices, causing the Federal Reserve to hike the cost of borrowing. But growth is likely to be lower this quarter, easing fears of an overheated economy. Investors were also reassured by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's statement Thursday that the Consumer Price Index is overstating inflation, a sign that the Federal Reserve probably won't raise interest rates at its monthly meeting next Tuesday...