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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 2002
Page
5
On the final trading day of the quarter, tech shares rose while blue chips faltered. Analysts cited low volume before Good Friday and fears profits won’t justify higher prices. Dow fell 22.97 to 10,403.94, Nasdaq gained 18.60 to 1,845.35, S&P up 2.81.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 10,403.94 up 22.97 from the prior session, while the Standard & Poor's 500 stood at 1147.39 up 2.81. The Nasdaq Composite closed at 1845.35 up 18.60 and the NYSE composite reached 1,413,472,290 in total volume.
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In Chicago trading on the Board of Trade wheat futures fell over 3 percent as profit taking sparked a broad reversal. May wheat dropped 9 1/4 cents to 2.85 a bushel, May corn declined 3 3/4 cents to 2.09, oats eased 1 1/2 cents to 1.99, while soybeans gained 3 1/2 cents to 4.76 ¼.
Eastern Cornbelt prices show modest holding at Stockyards Springfield with carcass values by inch bf ranging 40 to 52, thin demand for light offerings. Illinois Direct Hogs purchases total 11,420 with mixed weights 300 to 600 pounds and boar prices from 12 to 26 dollars.
The Associated Press reports that in at least six states including Alabama Oklahoma Hawaii and Georgia the standard deduction has not kept pace with inflation since the 1980s and 1989. Without automatic inflation indexing taxpayers face higher bills while federal rules index the deduction. About 67.5 percent of taxpayers claimed the federal standard deduction in 1999.
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