Blue chips rise as market widens on Fed hold
The Dow gains 39.98 to 6308.33 while the Nasdaq climbs 5.33 to 1266.31 and the S P 500 rises 5.08 to 726.06. NYSE volume reaches 519.84 million as declines outpace advances and the Fed signals no short term rate hike. Equity leaders say the gains were narrow with only the largest blue chips rising.
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Ron Campbell
Robert Thomas Securities, Inc
Abbott Labs
Allegheny Power
AM. Family Corp
Ameritech
At&t Corp
Water Works
Anheuser-Busch
Apple Computer
Ashland Coal Inc
Ashland Oil Inc
Atlantic Richfield
Baker-Hughes Inc
Baltimore Gas & EL
Bearings Inc
Bell Atlantic
Bellsouth Corp
Bethlehem Steel
Boeing CO
Cabot Oil & Gas
Carolina Power
Chevron Corp
Chrysler Corp
Chubb Corp
Citizens Utilities
Coca-Cola CO
Columbia Gas Sys
Columbia Healthcare
CON
Nat'l Gas
Corning Inc
Crestar Financial
CSX Corp
Detroit Edison
Dominion Res
DOW Chemical
Dupont
Eastern Ent
Eastman Kodak
Emerson Electric
Ethyl Corp
Exxon Corp
First Union Corp
Virginia Bank
Flowers Industries
FMC Corp
Food Lion Inc
Ford Motor CO
GEN. Electric CO
GEN. Motors Corp
GTE Corp
Georgia Pacific
Gillette CO
Glaxo Holdings
Goodyear Tire
Hercules Inc
K-Mart Corp
Kroger CO
Lowe's CO
Mapco Inc
McDonald's Corp
MCI Communications
Merck & CO. Inc
Mobil Corp
Monsanto CO
Mylan Labs
Nash Finch CO
Nationsbank Corp
Navistar Int'l
Nike, Inc
Norfolk Southern
Occidental Pete
ONE Valley Bank
Pacific Telesis
J.C. Penney CO
Pennzoil CO
Pepsico Inc
Phila. Electric
Philip Morris Cos
Phillips Petroleum
Pittston Minerals
Potomac Elec
PWR
Praxair, Inc
Pulaski Furniture
Reebok Int
REX Stores Corp
Reynolds Metals
Rite Aid Corp
Sears Roebuck
Sherwin Williams
Shoney's Inc
Union Pacific
Unisys Corp
Universal Corp
Usair Group
USX
Marathon Oil
U.S. Steel
Wal-Mart
Walt Disney CO
Wendy's Int'l
Westinghouse EL
Westmoreland Coal
Westvaco Corp
DOW Jones
Xerox Corp
NEW York
Federal Reserve
New York Stock Exchange
NYSE
Standard & Poor
American Stock Exchange
Larry Rice
Josephthal, Lyon & Ross
Slain Red Cross workers shock Chechnya attack
Masked gunmen stormed a Red Cross hospital in Novo Atagi Chechnya before dawn, killing six workers including four nurses and two others while one more was wounded. The ICRC suspended activities. victims hailed from the Netherlands, Spain, Canada, New Zealand, and Norway. The attack drew swift condemnation.
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Russia
Red Cross
Chechnya
International Committee of the Red Cross
Republic
Netherlands
Spain
Canada
New Zealand
Norway
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