Dow closes at fresh record as stocks rebound
The Dow Jones rose 31.33 to 11,582.43 and the Nasdaq gained 107.19 to 3,957.21 while the S&P 500 advanced to 1,449.68 as investors welcomed a Labor Department inflation report. Excluding energy, wholesale prices grew 0.9 percent in 1999, with December up 0.3 percent, easing rate hike fears.
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RON Campbell Investment Planning
Raymond James Financial Services
NASD
SIPC
Abbott Labs
Allegheny Electric
AFLAC
SBC Communications
At&t Corp
Water Works
Anheuser-Busch
Apple Computer
IND. Tech
Ashland Coal Inc
Ashland Oil Inc
Atlantic Richfield
Baker-Hughes Inc
Baltimore Gas & EL
Bankamerica
Bell Atlantic
Bellsouth Corp
Bethlehem Steel
Boeing CO
CBS Corp
Cabot Oil & Gas
Carolina Power
Chevron Corp
Chubb Corp
Citizens Utilities
Coca-Cola CO
Columbia Gas Sys
Columbia Healthcare
CON. Nat'l Gas
Corning Inc
Suntrust Banks
CSX Corp
CVS Corp
Daimlerchrysler AG
Detroit Edison
Dominion Res
DOW Chemical
Dupont
Eastern Ent
Eastman Kodak
Emerson Electric
Ethyl Corp
Exxon Mobil
First Union Corp
Virginia Bank
Flowers Industries
FMC Corp
Delhaize America Inc
Ford Motor CO
GEN. Electric CO
GEN. Motors Corp
GTE
Georgia Pacific
Gillette
GLAXO
Goodyear Tire
Hercules Inc
Humana Corp
IBM Corp
Ingersoll-Rand
Intel Corporation
K-Mart Corp
Kroger CO
Lowe's Cos
Lucent Technologies
McDonald's Corp
Merck & CO. Inc
Microsoft Corp
UPS
Monsanto CO
Mylan Labs, Inc
Nash Finch CO
Navistar Int'l
Nike, Inc
Norfolk Southern
Occidental Pete
ONE Valley Bank
J.C. Penney CO
Philip Morris Cos
Phillips Petroleum
Pittston Brinks
Pittston Burlington
Pittston Minerals
Potomac Elec
PWR
Praxair, Inc
Pulaski Furniture
Reebok Int'l
REX Stores Corp
Reynolds Metals
Rite Aid Corp
RJ Reynolds
Rockwell Int'l
Sara Lee Corp
Sears Roebuck
Sherwin Williams
Shoney's Inc
Southern CO
Tenneco Inc
Texaco Inc
TRI Continental
Union Carbide
Union Pacific
Unisys Corp
Universal Corp
Usair Group
USX
Marathon Oil
U.S. Steel
Wal-Mart
Walt Disney CO
Wendy's Nnt'l
Westwaco Corp
Williams Cos
Valley Nat'l Gases
Xerox Corp
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Standard & Poor
Labor Department
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Federal Reserve
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Power line case may relocate hearings to Wytheville
Wytheville, Va. officials confirm AEP 765kV transmission line trial hearings could move from Richmond to Maranatha Church of God in Wytheville. The Virginia State Corporation Commission has the motion, filed by local boards and APPAL and CUPTC, with a ruling likely after Feb 1.
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American Electric Power
Richmond
Wythe County
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David Anderson
AEP
Anderson
Maranatha Church of God
West Lee Street
APPAL
David Muhly
Muhly
Virginia
Todd Burns
Burns
SCC
Chris McMillion
Citizens United
Tazewell County
McMillion
CUPTC
Tazewell County Board of Supervisors
CAPTC
Mark Early
Tazewell
Buchanan General to lay off about forty workers
Buchanan General Hospital will cut nearly 40 full time jobs over the coming weeks to save about 2.5 million dollars annually amid lower Medicare reimbursements and area population shifts. The plan also trims non-salary expenses and management positions while offering severance and health coverage options and job transition help.
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Grundy
Buchanan General Hospital
John West
West
Koch to pay 35 million for oil pipeline spills
Koch Industries agreed to a 35 million dollar penalty after leaks spilled about 3 million gallons of oil into lakes and streams across six states. The settlement resolves lawsuits alleging years of pipeline disrepair and hundreds of leaks from 1990 to 1997. The EPA said spills occurred in Texas Oklahoma Kansas Alabama Louisiana and Missouri.
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Koch Industries
Koch
Wichita
Kan
United States
Canada
Texas
Minnesota
Koch Petroleum Group
Oklahoma
Kansas
Alabama
Louisiana
Missouri
EPA
Carol Browner
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