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frames- [ARGM-ADV If Boeing goes ahead with the larger 767] , [ARG0 the plane] [ARGM-MOD could] [rel hit] [ARG1 the market] [ARGM-TMP in the mid-1990s] .
- Late that afternoon [ARG0 the S&P 500 stock-index futures contract] fell a total of 30 index points , *-1 [rel hitting] [ARG1 a Merc circuit breaker limit that *T*-210 remained in effect for the rest of the trading session] .
- Commodity prices have been rising in recent years , with [ARG0 the farm price index] [rel hitting] [ARG1 record peaks] [ARGM-TMP earlier this year] , as the government curtailed production with land-idling programs *-1 to reduce price-depressing surpluses .
- `` When [ARG0 the sell programs] [rel hit] *T*-1 , you can hear the order printers start *-2 to go '' on the Big Board trading floor , says 0 *T*-3 one specialist there .
- *-1 Currently a $ 300 million-a-year business , [ARG0 900 telephone service] is expected *-1 to [rel hit] [ARG1 $ 500 million *U*] [ARGM-TMP next year] and near $ 2 billion *U* by 1992 as uses for the service continue *-3 to expand , says 0 *T*-2 Joel Gross of Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrette Inc .
- [ARG0 The Avon , Conn. , company 's stock] [rel hit] [ARG1 a high] [ARGM-TMP in 1983] [ARGM-TMP after it unveiled its Adam home computer] , but the product was plagued *-1 with glitches and the company 's fortunes plunged .
- But Coleco bounced back with the introduction of the Cabbage Patch dolls , [ARG0 whose sales] *T*-1 [rel hit] [ARG1 $ 600 million *U*] [ARGM-TMP in 1985] .
- [ARG0 Columbia stock] [ARGM-TMP recently] [rel hit] [ARG1 4 1\/8] , [ARGM-TMP after * reaching 11 3\/4 earlier this year on rumors that Mr. Spiegel would take the thrift private] .
- `` Until [ARG0 this] came up and [rel hit] [ARG1 the press] , there was never any indication that he was doing anything wrong . ''
- Nissan started *-1 advertising Infiniti fully eight months before [ARG0 the cars] [rel hit] [ARG1 American showrooms] .
- [ARGM-TMP On Friday] , when [ARG0 only a dozen common stocks] [rel hit] [ARG1 52-week highs] [ARGM-LOC on the New York Stock Exchange] *T*-1 , five were gold-mining issues , and another four were utilities .
- One reason for his gloom is a weekly tally 0 he keeps *T*-1 of [ARG0 stocks] within a point of * [rel hitting] [ARG1 new highs or lows] .
- [ARGM-TMP Last Friday] , [ARG0 96 stocks on the Big Board] [rel hit] [ARG1 new 12-month lows] .
- But [ARG0 it] showed strength throughout the session , *-1 [rel hitting] [ARG1 a low of only 2102.2] [ARGM-TMP within the first few minutes of dealings] .
- After [ARG0 *-1] [rel hitting] [ARG1 two-year highs] [ARGM-TMP this summer] , net sales of stock funds slowed in September , according to the Investment Company Institute , a trade group .
- [ARGM-DIS And] [ARG0 plans * to raise another $ 20 million *U* through changes to an insurance policy] have [rel hit] [ARG1 a snag] , the source said 0 *T*-1 .
- At the same time , a recent poll shows that [ARG0 Mrs. Thatcher] has [rel hit] [ARG1 the lowest popularity rating of any British leader since polling began 50 years ago] .
- Britain 's Thatcher summoned senior advisers for strategy talks as opinion polls showed 0 [ARG0 the prime minister 's popularity] had [rel hit] [ARG1 a record low] [ARGM-TMP following the resignation last Thursday of Chancellor of the Exchequer Lawson] .
- He notes , for instance , that there has n't been a merger or acquisition among the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1986 , yet [ARG0 that average] [ARGM-TMP only three weeks ago] [rel hit] [ARG1 a record high] .
- And the number of [ARG0 stocks] [rel hitting] [ARG1 new lows] far outstrips the number setting new highs .
- [ARG0 Sterling] plunged about four cents Thursday and [rel hit] [ARG1 the week 's low of $ 1.5765 *U*] [ARGM-TMP when Mr. Lawson resigned from his six-year post because of a policy squabble with other cabinet members *T*-1] .
- [ARG0 Efforts *ICH*-3 by the Hong Kong Futures Exchange * to introduce a new interest-rate futures contract] continue *-2 to [rel hit] [ARG1 snags] , despite the support 0 the proposed instrument enjoys *T*-1 in the colony 's financial community .
- Just a few months ago , the three-month Eurodollar rate was around 9.5 % , while [ARG0 three-month Hibor] [rel hit] [ARG1 highs above 11 %] .
- `` You get a news item , [ARG0 it] [rel hits] , you have strong redemptions that day and for two days following -- then go back to normal , '' says *T*-1 Mr. Litvack .
- [ARGM-TMP As stocks and stock-index futures fell] , [ARG1 a trading limit] was [rel hit] *-1 [ARGM-LOC in the S&P 500 stock futures pit] .
- [ARGM-TMP At about 10:40 a.m. EDT] , [ARG0 several big buy orders] [rel hit] [ARG1 the S&P pit] [ARGM-TMP simultaneously] , [ARGM-ADV *-2 lifting the futures up out of the trading limit and eventually into ranges that *T*-1 caused computer-driven program buying of stocks] .
- These firms sold stock into the big morning decline , but *-1 seeing the velocity of the market 's drop , held back on their offsetting purchases of futures until [ARG0 the S&P futures] [rel hit] [ARG1 the trading limit] .
- [ARGM-TMP Then] , [ARGM-LOC in late-afternoon trading] , [ARG0 hundred-thousand-share buy orders for UAL *ICH*-1] [rel hit] [ARG1 the market] , including a 200,000-share order through Bear Stearns that *T*-4 seemed *-2 to spark UAL 's late price surge .
- The first real test of whether [ARG0 prices] have [rel hit] [ARG1 bottom] may come in the next several weeks , when the new prices become effective *T*-1 .
- Wellman stock closed Friday at 39 3\/8 , up 1\/8 ; Mr. Sloan thinks that [ARGM-TMP in a year] [ARG0 it] [ARGM-MOD could] [rel hit] [ARG1 60] .
- Unlike stop orders -- which *T*-4 are filled *-1 at the market price when [ARG1 the stop price] is [rel hit] *-2 *T*-5 -- stop-limit orders demand that the trades be made *-3 only at the specified price .
- [ARGM-TMP Last week] [ARG0 the stock] [rel hit] [ARG1 an all-time high of 37 1\/4] [ARGM-TMP before *-1 getting roughed *-2 up in the Friday-the-13th minicrash] .
- [ARGM-TMP By the second half of 1990] , [ARG0 USAir stock] [ARGM-MOD could] [rel hit] [ARG1 60] , says 0 *T*-1 Helane Becker of Shearson Lehman Hutton .
- [ARG0 The stock] had [rel hit] [ARG1 a high of $ 81 *U* a share] [ARGM-TMP early last week] but collapsed to $ 73.50 *U* in the Friday stock plunge .
- Now producers hope 0 [ARG0 prices] have [rel hit] [ARG1 bottom] .
- `` [ARG0 Everyone] was [rel hitting] [ARG1 everyone else 's bid] , '' he said *T*-1 .
- [ARG0 A third model] , *-1 marketed *-2 in Japan , [ARGM-MOD may] [rel hit] [ARG1 the U.S.] [ARGM-TMP by the end of the first quarter of 1990] , but by then , analysts say 0 *T*-3 , Compaq will have established itself as one of three major players .
- [ARG0 Twenty-four New York Stock Exchange issues] [rel hit] [ARG1 52-week highs] [ARGM-TMP during Friday 's trading] , [ARGM-ADV despite the Dow Jones Industrial Average 's 190.58-point plunge] .
- And among [ARG0 the issues] [rel hitting] [ARG1 new highs] were *T*-1 Detroit Edison Co. and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp .
- [ARG0 Other major issues] [rel hitting] [ARG1 highs] included American Telephone & Telegraph Co. , Westinghouse Electric Corp. , Exxon Corp. and Cigna Corp. , the big insurer .
- [ARGM-DIS Of course] , [ARG0 many more issues -- 93 --] [rel hit] [ARG1 new lows] .
- It was the latest in a series of setbacks for the junk bond market , where prices began * weakening last month after [ARG0 Campeau] [rel hit] [ARG1 a cash crunch] *T*-1 .