A couple of unrelated related stories:

The IRS is pushing to eliminate as much paper as possible, encouraging more people to file electronically...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Electronic-Taxes.html

and:

U.S. and I.M.F. Made Asia Crisis Worse, World Bank Finds

including the lines - " The report also predicts that most of the afflicted nations will probably begin climbing out of recession next year, with growth continuing in 2000. But it warns that "there is still a substantial risk that the world economy will plunge into recession in 1999," particularly if Japan is unable to end its recession."

Also, markets around the world continue to drop, and people are getting "downsized" or "retiring all over the place...

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), December 03, 1998

Answers

actually, London closed higher, I misread that one.

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), December 03, 1998.