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• Holiday season spurs strong November for stock indexes

  - 2004-11-30

  Crude oil prices continue to play a significant role in driving stock market fluctuations. November saw oil prices fall from their record high of $55.67 per barrel last month to as low as $46.87 per barrel on November 15. Oil prices shot back up to over $50 per barrel due...

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• Roller coaster month ends on positive note for IBO indexes

  - 2004-10-31

  A barrage of negative macroeconomic events early in October sent all three major US Stock Indexes tumbling, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaching an intraday low for the year at 9,708.40. The Labor Department's figures for September job growth came in much weaker than expected, with only 96,000 jobs...

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• Laboratory Instrument companies outpace US Indexes

  - 2004-09-30

  Cautious optimism remains the theme for the US economy in general and for the three major US stock indexes as the summer comes to an end. During September, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates another quarter point to 1.75% as expected, noting that the economy is regaining some momentum after...

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• Laboratory equipment/distributor index continues to grow in May

  - 2002-05-31

  The US economic news in May was decidedly mixed. In the early May meeting, the Federal Reserve decided to leave the federal funds rate for overnight loans between banks unchanged at 1.75%, a 40-year low. The discount rate remains, 1.25%. Unemployment in April rose to 6%, the highest it has...

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• Three IBO stock indices post losses for January

  - 2002-01-31

  For the most part, the economic news in January was fairly positive. The government reported that in the last three months of 2001, the economy grew at a rate of 0.2% as compared to the third quarter decline of 1.3%. After the end of the first month of 2002,...

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