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Reports on the performance of bonds in the United States (U.S.) on August 3, 2000. Factor that caused the increase of bond prices; Role of the U.S. Federal Reserve in the Treasury bond price trend; Expectations from the July unemployment report.

Reports on stock market activities as of November 18, 1998. Effect of the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates; Soaring of technology stocks; Dow Jones Industrial Average; Nasdaq Composite Index; Bonds; Comments of Robert Harrington, co-head of listed block trading at PaineWebber.

Looks at the response of United States financial markets to the Federal Reserve's unexpected October 15, 1998 cut in interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average's achievement of its third-biggest point gain in history; Gains for banking and brokerages resulting in firm stocks; Overall performance of the Dow industrials for 1998; Other indexes, including the Nasdaq composite index; Rates for the 30-year bellwether Treasury bond.

Provides information on investors' reluctance to buy bonds on labor costs and the treasury market. Comments from the US Federal Reserve officials on bond rates; Information on treasury bond prices' early losses; Implications of the slight reduction of treasury bonds.