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- hv BUSINESS, Page 52Business NotesWALL STREETBad News Bulls
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- Spooked by a burst of inflation at home and worrisome
- economic signals abroad, the stock market suffered an anxiety
- attack last week. On Friday the Dow Jones industrial average
- plunged 71.46 points, the largest single-day decline since the
- 190-point minicrash on Friday, Oct. 13. Last week's loss sent
- the Dow to 2689.21, down 84.04 for the week.
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- The power dive came after Tokyo's Nikkei stock average
- tumbled 653.36 points, to 37,516.77, the steepest one-day drop
- in two years. Investors had barely calmed down from that fright
- when Washington reported that the U.S. index of wholesale
- prices jumped an unexpectedly high 0.7% in December.
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- The bad news on inflation dampened Wall Street's hopes that
- the Federal Reserve Board would continue to loosen credit.
- Those expectations had run high earlier in the week when major
- U.S. banks cut their prime lending rate from 10 1/2% to 10%.
- The reduction could quickly lead to lower short-term interest
- rates on many loans -- unless it is reversed by new
- inflationary pressures.
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