http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/business Stocks Hurt By More Inflation News-- Reuters.

This week has been interesting economically.

-- Barb (awaltrip@telepath.com), July 30, 1999

Answers

According to CBS MarketWatch, July 1999 was the worst month for the Dow since last August.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), July 30, 1999.

Humm.

There is a faint sound of distant wings.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), July 30, 1999.

I don't know......

I hear the sound of a mighty rushing wind...........

-- don (mmtgman@aol.com), July 30, 1999.

monkey wings flapping, sheeple still asleep in poppies, dearie, poppies, zzzzzzzzzzz

-- o ee o, oeo (wicked witch@west.tower), July 30, 1999.

Barb:

You may want to compare the Dow to last year's trends during this same period. I got out of the market last year in July and watched the trend for a while. Here's what I noticed:

DOW Jones:

July 17...close at 9337

July 24 8937

July 31 8883

Aug 7 8598

Aug 14 8425

Aug 21 8611

Aug 28 8051

Sept 4 7640

Sept 11 7795

Sept 18 7895

Oct 2 7784

Oct 9 7899

Oct 16 8416

Oct 23 8452 Oct 29 8592

Nov 6 8975

Nov 13 8919

Nov 20 9159

Nov 27 9333

Dec 4 9016

Dec 11 8821

No doubt the formatting will be screwed up, but you should be able to glean the information.

-- Anita (spoonera@msn.com), July 30, 1999.

Thanks, Anita, I see how it varies. Just started watching the indices this week.

-- Barb (awaltrip@telepath.com), July 30, 1999.

Down 136.14 today.

-- (just@helping.out), July 30, 1999.

Down is 500+ points in a day. With a number of bad days to follow. Anything less is normal market behavior these days.

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), July 30, 1999.

The stockbrokers and the pundits on CNBC will nodoubtedly chant "Prices are down...now's a great time to snap up some deals."

P/E ratios tell me otherwise.

-- Tim (pixmo@pixelquest.com), July 31, 1999.