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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 2003
Page
5
A dense page of closing prices and daily ranges appears, listing numerous stock symbols with last prices, bid and ask figures, and volume counts. Several entries show unusual characters and garbled text, indicating OCR limitations from the original financial page.
New York AP report says Wall Street posted a seventh straight gain as investors remained optimistic about an early end to the Iraq conflict. The market rebounded from an early drop, though momentum cooled by war developments. Analysts cautioned that news flow could temper the rally.
Eastern Cornbelt prices closed steady across fatback weights with 0.5 to 0.9 inch backfat ranges from 41.75 to 54.55 per hundred. Illinois Direct Hogs show moderating demand with prices for 300 to 600 pound categories from 19.00 to 28.00 and boars priced 4.00 to 24.00 depending on weight.</final>
Chicago Board of Trade grains ended higher for corn and soybeans after export market strength, while wheat finished mostly flat. May wheat held at 2.94 per bushel, May corn rose to 2.38, May oats gained 31 cents to 1.84, and May soybeans advanced to 5.74 per bushel.
Fires at Iraq's Rumaila oil field north of the Kuwait border spark an early price jump on world markets, then volatile trading cools as damage appears limited. Crude for April delivery settled at 28.61 a barrel on the Nymex, down 1.27 from the prior day.
The Dow closed up 21.15 points at 8286.60 after trading as low as 8150s earlier. Investors saw a gain as blue chips marked their longest streak of wins since August 2000, traveling to Thursday with momentum.
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