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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 2002
Page
5
Chicago trading sees corn drop to two month lows as fall harvest pressure and seasonal factors pull prices down about 3 percent. Soybeans and wheat also fall. oats edge higher while wheat and corn show declines by session end with December corn at 2.51 1/2 and November soybeans at 5.45 3/4.
Stockyards Springfield reports higher carcass prices across 0.5 to 0.9 inch bf ranges with bids from 34.75 to 46.22. Illinois direct hog purchases totaled 17 756 with mostly steady demand and moderate interest for light to moderate offerings. Hog weights 300 to 600+ pounds posted 13.00 to 19.00 while boars under 300 pounds hovered 10.00 to 16.00 and over 300 pounds 4.00 to 8.00.
Stocks fell sharply as consumer spending worries deepened. The Dow dropped 109.52 to 7591.93, Nasdaq slid to 1172.07, and the S&P 500 fell to 815.28, all marking multiquarter lows and signaling cautious sentiment amid recession risk and geopolitical tensions.
Investors pulled a record 52.6 billion dollars from about 8 000 mutual funds in July as major stock indexes sank to bear market lows. Analysts warn several more months of outflows may follow while the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all declined sharply.
August consumer spending rose 0.3 percent after July's 1 percent surge while incomes gained 0.4 percent, signaling continued demand despite Iraq war anxieties and stock declines. Analysts expect GDP gains of about 4 percent in Q3 and around 2.5 percent in Q4, with unemployment hovering near 5.7 to 5.9 percent.
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