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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1979
Page
21
A sprawling page of ticker numbers shows New York stocks continuing to drift from the prior session as major exchanges display scattered gains and losses. Investors scan values across dozens of issuers including uncertain activity in industrials, utilities, and transportation sectors amid fluctuating trading volumes.
A dense summary of stock exchange coding notes explains metrics like 52 week highs and lows, dividends, and stock splits. It lists footnotes for Canadian money, US dollar trades, and various designation letters such as u for new high, n for new issue, and x for ex-dividend.
The page lists the week’s twenty most active stocks with figures for trading volume and prices. Companies include Caesars, Wilms Cos, GPU Co, Ster, Drug Chryster, IBA Qc, G Exxu, Amer us, and Mob. The numbers show volumes like 717,300 and 707,900 and multiple price figures across the set.
Fragmentary OCR shows numbers and names like Beverly En and Petr Genl Expic with varied figures such as 86,730 and 479,100. The text is garbled and lacks clear context or a complete narrative to identify specific events, dates, or outcomes.
Over the counter U.S. Government Treasury bonds show weekly high low and close prices across many maturities with yields and changes from prior weeks. The listings include Dec 79 through Nov 83 and various 2 6 7 10 year style notes, printed in dense OCR style with mixed punctuation.
Fragments show stock figures and percentages for various listings. The readable data includes prices, yields, and volumes with uncertain OCR errors. Strong entities are scarce due to incomplete text.
NEW YORK AP Standard and Poor's Weekly 500 Stock Index shows mixed readings with several sectors including Utilities and Finance fluctuating. The data includes figures such as 121.04 120.70 120.88 and 0.29 changes, indicating modest shifts across multiple components.
Readable numbers show large sums and codes such as 50,000 and 880,000, but context is missing. OCR fragmentary data includes 65,730.01 and 17,4600 plus other digits and parentheses, with no clear dates or entities.
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