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Stocks extend roller coaster as Dow falls sharply
New York stocks opened and closed lower on light volume, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping about 68 points to 7,689.98 as markets react to rising interest rates and inflation worries. The S&P 500 fell to 888.99, the NYSE composite dropped to 462.90, and the Nasdaq slid to 1,446.24 amid broad declines and mixed overseas gains.
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Ron Campbell
Robert Thomas Securities, Inc
Abbott Labs
Allegheny Power
AM. Family Corp
Ameritech
At&t Corp
AM. Water Works
Anheuser-Busch
Apple Computer
IND. Tech
Ashland Coal Inc
Ashland Oil Inc
Atlantic Richfield
Baker-Hughes Inc
Baltimore Gas & EL
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
1St 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
Humana Corp
IBM Corp
Ingersoll-Rand
Intel Corporation
K-Mart Corp
Kroger CO
Lowe's CO
Lucent Technologies
Mapco Inc
McDonald's Corp
MC Communications
Merck & CO. Inc
Microsoft Corp
Mobil Corp
Monsanto CO
Mylan Labs
Nash Finch CO
Nationsbank Corp
Navistar Int'l
Nike, Inc
Norfolk Southern
Occidental Pete
ONE Valley Bank
J.C. Penney CO
Pennzoil CO
RJR Nabisco Hldg
Rockwell Int'l
Sara Lee Corp
Sears Roebuck
Sherwin Williams
Shoney's Inc
Signet Banking
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 Int'l
Westinghouse EL
Westwaco Corp
Xerox Corp
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