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Daily stock market updates
If you're watching just about any financial market, listen up: Martin Wong provides Internet users with end-of-the-day stock reports along with other useful business information. These files are available via FTP from dg-rtp.dg.com and via e-mail.
If you would like to receive the daily quote mailings, send e-mail to Martin.Wong@eng.sun.com. Your e-mail will be read by a human, not a machine, so be nice. Wong requests "that people send me timely information on company earnings, products, or industry news for inclusion in the distribution. I also want to know if anyone gets rich from the information."
Here's a very abbreviated example of Mr. Wong's daily financial updates:
====Information deemed reliable, but never guaranteed========================= --- MARKET SUMMARY & NEWS (TWOCENTS or tosense) -[Your Nickel]---------------- Japan's market off sharply. DJIA opened up 10 and had a bullish bias all day for the start of April portfolio window dressing. Rallying to +16 and holding in the first hour, a small fade back to +8 and that was all the bears could do as the market moved ahead for the rest of the day, up 30 by midday, and finishing at the day's highs despite circuit breakers cutting off the computer buy programs at +50, the market finished up 57.10 points to a key level back above 3700, DJIA 3,705.78 on contracting, normally lighter Monday volume of 262 million shares. Utilities up 1, Transports up 15, OTC up 8.25 points @730.81. Bonds up 3/4, $ lower, gold up 2.80, silver up .03 to $5.13. 3-Month T-Bill rate at 3.85%, 6 month T bill at 4.25%, 30 year long bond yield dropped to 7.14%. Oscillator confirmed the buy signal and we should now have a 6-8 week buy cycle on the oscillator. Wall Street Week elves sell signal gone as the neutral elf moved to bullish, leaving 3 bulls, 7 bears and a -4 reading. NYSE, ASE, and PSE all vote to close their markets for Nixon memorial services on Wed. > I N D I C E S, A V E R A G E S > Last Change Open High Low > 136.46 +2.82 AMEX Computer Index 133.64 136.46 133.64 > 454.27 +5.04 AMEX Institution Index 449.23 454.27 449.12 > 373.51 +5.59 AMEX Major Market Index 367.92 373.51 367.75 > 435.97 +2.66 AMEX Market Value Index 433.31 435.99 433.29 > 264.54 +5.29 AMEX Oil Index 259.25 264.64 259.07 > 3705.78 +57.10 Dow J Industrial Average 3648.68 3706.08 3648.68 > 1610.25 +15.23 Dow J Transportation Average 1594.58 1610.47 1593.25 > 200.17 +0.92 Dow J Utility Average 199.12 200.63 198.85 > 730.81 +8.25 NASDAQ Composite 723.65 731.22 722.56 > 899.40 +6.34 NASDAQ Financial Index 893.16 900.18 891.85 > 757.86 +6.15 NASDAQ Industrial Index 752.54 758.02 752.10 > 885.60 +5.12 NASDAQ Insurance Index 878.48 885.61 877.44 > 735.34 +5.37 NASDAQ Transp Index 731.57 736.08 731.11 > 250.47 +2.52 NYSE Composite 247.95 250.47 247.92 > 209.36 +1.15 NYSE Finance 208.21 209.37 208.09 > 306.90 +3.53 NYSE Industrials 303.37 306.90 303.37 > 251.03 +2.71 NYSE Transportation 248.32 251.08 247.80 > 216.06 +1.70 NYSE Utilities 214.36 216.43 214.21 > 417.61 +5.26 Standard & Poors 100 Index 412.36 417.61 412.25 > 452.71 +5.08 Standard & Poors 500 Index 447.55 452.71 447.53 SYMB:TN PRICE-P CHANGE PCTCHG HIGH LOW LAST VOLUME-V P*V VALUE AA:S+ 68.625 0.875 1.29% 68.625 66.875 67.75 431.9K 29.6391M AAPL:S* 31.000 1.250 4.20% 31.000 29.500 29.75 3207.5K 99.4325M ABF:S 32.875 -0.125 -0.38% 33.125 32.750 33.00 239.7K 7.8801M ABX:S+ 22.000 0.750 3.53% 22.000 21.375 21.25 1041.4K 22.9108M ACAD:S 55.375 -0.125 -0.23% 56.000 54.750 55.50 154.2K 8.5388M ACN:S+ 13.375 0.625 4.90% 13.375 12.625 12.75 69.7K 0.9322M ADBE:S+ 26.000 1.000 4.00% 26.000 24.750 25.00 424.2K 11.0292M ADCT:S+ 40.250 1.250 3.21% 40.250 39.000 39.00 49.6K 1.9964M ADPT:S+ 17.875 1.375 8.33% 17.875 16.750 16.50 372.1K 6.6513M AGN:S 20.250 -0.250 -1.22% 20.500 20.125 20.50 66.9K 1.3547M AHP:S 59.250 0.250 0.42% 59.500 58.625 59.00 390.3K 23.1253M ALD:S* 35.500 0.375 1.07% 36.000 35.125 35.125 481.5K 17.0933M ALDC:S+ 28.125 0.875 3.21% 28.125 27.250 27.25 90.3K 2.5397M ALEX:S+ 25.000 0.500 2.04% 25.000 24.500 24.50 22.7K 0.5675MHistorical stock information
For historical stock information, FTP to
dg-rtp.dg.com:/pub/misc.investThere's lots of good stuff there, including historical stock data, mutual fund information, and other useful facts and figures for investors. More complete information about this site (as well as listings of some other sites with financial information) is available from the misc.invest FAQ, which you can find on the Usenet. It's posted monthly to misc.invest, misc.answers, and news.answers. You can also get it via the Web at http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/cml/invest-faq/. Los Angeles Times Market Beat
As an experiment, the Los Angeles Times is offering Tom Petruno's Market Beat column online free of charge. Market Beat is a source of fresh, off-Wall Street perspective on investing and financial markets. It's written for the do-it-yourself investor in individual securities and mutual funds by a widely followed and market-savvy columnist who's been covering investing since 1979.
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