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Trader -New York Stock Exchange Comment! -
02-16-2008
Today Febuary 15,2008 Stocks were trading mixed.. as a lackluster economic reports offered Wall street.. mean that wall street was think that economic report will be better than economist think about.. Friday's market declines, I lost few bucks!, Stock trader sent stocks down more than 1 percent.. that not than much but still it pain..we Waiting for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake for somewhat call Cut in intrest rate.. I think in March we will see some 0.5 % cut in intrest rate! cool huh?
With stock markets closed Monday for the Presidents Day holiday and fresh economic concerns, investors appeared uninterested in making any sizable moves.
The Dow Jones industrial average ended the week up 166.08, or 1.36 percent, at 12,348.21. The Standard & Poor's 500 index finished up 18.70, or 1.40 percent, at 1,349.99. The Nasdaq composite index ended the week up 16.95, or 0.74 percent, at 2,321.80.
The Russell 2000 index finished the week up 2.62, or 0.37 percent, at 701.52.
The Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index -- a free-float weighted index that measures 5,000 U.S. based companies -- ended Friday at 13,652.73, up 165.78 points, or 1.23 percent, for the week. A year ago, the index was at 14,733.65.
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Last edited by Stockpicker; 02-16-2008 at 01:39 AM.
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