Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Over the past several years, we have managed to maintain a monotonic downward trend in tuition rate increases, even though these increases continue to be higher than those in the consumer price index or in median family income," Knowles wrote...
...Jones industrial average set its seventh straight record high, edging up 1.08 points to close at $5,601.23, and raising fears that the market may be overextending itself. The NYSE composite index slipped 0.41, ending the day at 351.29. Trading was heavy on the New York Stock Exchange, and declining issues outnumbered advancers slightly. After a dive early in the day, the Nasdaq recovered some and closed at 1,087.22, down 8.16 points. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell 0.93 to 660.52, and the American Stock Exchange's market value index fell 1.84 to 560.62. Gold in London...
Earlier last week, three British soldiers met their deaths when they drove over an antitank mine. But this was the first American killed while serving in Bosnia. While that may not carry with it any special index of tragedy, it does score a notch on the emotional yardstick by which Americans gauge whether their government's latest foreign policy venture is worth its perils...
...climbed 58.53 points Monday to close at 5,600.15, bringing its gains to more than 9.4 percent so far this year and its rise to more than 41 percent for the past 12 months. Big Board volume totaled 397.83 million shares as of 4 p.m. The NYSE's composite index rose 2.26 to 351.70. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 5.09 to 661.46. The Nasdaq composite index gained 0.66 to close at 1095.26. The AMEX market value inex fell 1.55 to 562.46.In London, Gold closed...
...fifth straight record for Wall Street's best-known indicator. The Dow slid to minus 26 on computer driven selling around noon, but maintained its pattern of rallying into the close, which has prevailed all week. Trading volume was heavy at 476.64 million shares. The NYSE composite index rose 0.29 to 349.44, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 0.30 to 656.37, and the Nasdaq composite rose 1.43 to 1,094.60. All three indexes broke Thursday's records. It was the sixth straight record for the Nasdaq composite and the fifth consecutive high for the other two indicators...