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...quiet, at first, for 26-year-old Joseph Schmuckler, program trader for Kidder Peabody. The blinking number on his computer screen, which will signal him when it is time to unleash his electronic firepower, is advising him to wait. But suddenly the stock market begins to move downward, and the telltale digit on Schmuckler's screen starts changing like a countdown at Cape Canaveral. The trader and his two assistants erupt in a frenzy of shouted telephone conversations as they advise colleagues in New York City and Chicago to get ready for a blast of trading orders. "Strap on your...
...made stocks increasingly vulnerable to a long- dreaded deep "correction." Once the slide started last Thursday, it picked up incredible speed because of so-called program trading -- computer- triggered waves of selling. By 11 a.m., the Dow had sunk almost 30 points. "It was remarkable," said Marvin Breen, a trader for Merrill Lynch. "I looked up at the screen, and it was down 20 points. Five minutes later it was down 30. Five minutes later it was down 40. It just kept dropping." Breen's account was only somewhat exaggerated: by 2:30 p.m., the Dow's plunge had passed...
...Whitehead in a revival of Beyond the Fringe. But the repertory also meets one of Artistic Director Jack O'Brien's longstanding goals, a world premiere of a substantial new play staged by him. The work, Emily, depicts the comic misadventures of a female yuppie, a hard- working stock trader who refuses to acquire furniture, artwork or a steady boyfriend for fear of being tied down. She picks up a waiter who is an out-of- work actor; he refuses to be bought or treated as an object, and they embark on a classic screwball-comedy romance, unable to live...
...absorbed its corporate culture all too well. In Alien, of course, company leaders, without warning employees of the danger, callously ordered them to bring an alien back alive, hoping it could be domesticated for use in the weapons division. Now Burke, who has the insinuating manner of an inside trader, is trying to do the same thing, but merely to advance his sleazy career. Perfectly capable of reminding Ripley and Hicks of "the substantial dollar value" of the space station when they propose blowing it up in order to rid the universe of aliens, he is a wonderfully observed, comical...
...running for the Senate seat Gary Hart will vacate this year, normally votes with the President. But on the trade bill Kramer voted against Reagan. Joining him was Tim Wirth, the Democratic candidate for the Hart seat. Republican Congressman Henson Moore of Louisiana used to be an ardent free trader. But he is running against ! Democratic Congressman John Breaux for the Senate, and both voted for the bill...