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...Jones industrial average ended up a stunning 936 points, the biggest one-day point gain in history - all the more remarkable considering the index of blue-chip stocks had just come off its worst weekly loss on record. The S&P 500, a broader measure of the stock market, saw its largest one-day percentage gain since 1939, and the tech-heavy NASDAQ jumped 12%. Seems a gaggle of European countries rolling out billions of dollars to guarantee loans and recapitalize banks, and indications that the U.S. might do some of the same, was the confidence boost everyone needed...
...pretty decent chance a year from now of being worth either four times what it is today - or a quarter as much. That absurdly broad range, which falls in line with other volatility barometers, is indicative of how haywire stocks have been acting. "You saw that kind of volatility in the Brazilian and Argentinean markets in the beginning of the 1990s," says Engle. "You don't really expect to see it in developed economies...
...great job,” Murphy said. “They’ve thrown the ball an average of 55 times a game and only have two sacks on the year.”Harvard did not play a spot-free 60 minutes, as the fourth quarter saw several penalties that allowed Cornell to regain some momentum—four flags were thrown in the fourth quarter alone, totaling 51 yards, and giving the Big Red its second touchdown of the day with 7:00 left.“We weren’t happy...
...thought she seemed more settled in her decision than that. At another, a teen-aged girl told him: "My dad is a super-strong Republican. You're probably at the wrong house." (He duly marked that down, to save future canvassers the trouble.) Still, the yard signs we saw suggested that this was in fact a neighborhood divided. We discovered that was true when we approached another house on the list and found a father and son raking the front yard. "I'm voting for McCain," the father told us. But his 19-year-old son, a college student home...
...saw there were people protesting, but I never saw more than two or three people there,” he said. “They just looked like guys in coats with papers...