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no , it was n't black monday .
UH , PRP VBD RB JJ NNP .
INTJ DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP DEP NP-PRD DEP
4 4 4 0 4 7 4 4
but while the new york stock exchange did n't fall apart friday as the dow jones industrial average plunged 190.58 points -- most of it in the final hour -- it barely managed to stay this side of chaos .
CC IN DT NNP NNP NNP NNP VBD RB VB RB NNP IN DT NNP NNP NNP NNP VBD CD NNS : JJS IN PRP IN DT JJ NN : PRP RB VBD TO VB DT NN IN NN .
DEP SBAR DEP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ S DEP VP ADVP NP SBAR DEP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ S DEP NP DEP PRN PP NP PP DEP DEP NP DEP NP-SBJ ADVP ROOT DEP S DEP NP PP NP DEP
33 33 7 7 7 7 8 2 8 8 10 10 10 18 18 18 18 19 13 21 19 23 21 23 24 23 29 29 26 23 33 33 0 35 33 37 35 37 38 33
some `` circuit breakers '' installed after the october 1987 crash failed their first test , traders say , unable to cool the selling panic in both stocks and futures .
DT `` NN NNS '' VBN IN DT NNP CD NN VBD PRP$ JJ NN , NNS VBP , JJ TO VB DT NN NN IN DT NNS CC NNS .
DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ DEP VP PP DEP DEP DEP NP ROOT DEP DEP NP-OBJ DEP NP-SBJ PRN DEP S DEP S DEP DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP
4 4 4 12 4 4 6 11 11 11 7 0 15 15 12 18 18 12 18 12 22 20 25 25 22 25 30 30 30 26 12
the 49 stock specialist firms on the big board floor -- the buyers and sellers of last resort who were criticized after the 1987 crash -- once again could n't handle the selling pressure .
DT CD NN NN NNS IN DT NNP NNP NN : DT NNS CC NNS IN JJ NN WP VBD VBN IN DT CD NN : RB RB MD RB VB DT NN NN .
DEP DEP DEP DEP NP PP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ PP DEP NP SBAR S VP PP DEP DEP NP DEP ADVP DEP ROOT DEP VP DEP DEP NP-OBJ DEP
5 5 5 5 15 5 10 10 10 6 15 15 15 15 29 15 18 16 15 19 20 21 25 25 22 15 29 27 0 29 29 34 34 31 29
big investment banks refused to step up to the plate to support the beleaguered floor traders by buying big blocks of stock , traders say .
JJ NN NNS VBD TO VB RP TO DT NN TO VB DT JJ NN NNS IN VBG JJ NNS IN NN , NNS VBP .
DEP DEP NP-SBJ S DEP S ADVP PP DEP NP DEP S DEP DEP DEP NP-OBJ PP S DEP NP-OBJ PP NP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP
3 3 4 25 6 4 6 7 10 8 12 6 16 16 16 12 12 17 20 18 20 21 25 25 0 25
heavy selling of standard & poor 's 500-stock index futures in chicago relentlessly beat stocks downward .
JJ NN IN NNP CC NNP POS JJ NN NNS IN NNP RB VBD NNS RB .
DEP NP-SBJ PP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP PP NP ADVP ROOT NP-OBJ ADVP DEP
2 14 2 7 7 7 10 10 10 3 2 11 14 0 14 14 14
seven big board stocks -- ual , amr , bankamerica , walt disney , capital cities\/abc , philip morris and pacific telesis group -- stopped trading and never resumed .
CD NNP NNP NNS : NNP , NNP , NNP , NNP NNP , NNP NNP , NNP NNP CC NNP NNP NNP : VBD NN CC RB VBD .
DEP DEP DEP NP DEP NP DEP NP DEP NP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ DEP ROOT S DEP ADVP VP DEP
4 4 4 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 13 23 23 16 23 23 19 23 23 23 23 25 23 0 25 25 29 25 25
the finger-pointing has already begun .
DT NN VBZ RB VBN .
DEP NP-SBJ ROOT ADVP VP DEP
2 3 0 3 3 3
`` the equity market was illiquid .
`` DT NN NN VBD JJ .
DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT ADJP DEP
5 4 4 5 0 5 5
once again { the specialists } were not able to handle the imbalances on the floor of the new york stock exchange , '' said christopher pedersen , senior vice president at twenty-first securities corp .
RB RB -LRB- DT NNS -RRB- VBD RB JJ TO VB DT NNS IN DT NN IN DT NNP NNP NNP NNP , '' VBD NNP NNP , JJ NN NN IN NNP NNP NNP .
ADVP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ DEP S DEP ADJP DEP S DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP PP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP ROOT DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ PP DEP DEP NP DEP
7 1 7 5 7 7 25 7 7 11 9 13 11 13 16 14 16 22 22 22 22 17 25 25 0 27 31 31 31 31 25 31 35 35 32 25
countered james maguire , chairman of specialists henderson brothers inc. : `` it is easy to say the specialist is n't doing his job .
VBD NNP NNP , NN IN NNS NNP NNP NNP : `` PRP VBZ JJ TO VB DT NN VBZ RB VBG PRP$ NN .
ROOT DEP NP DEP NP-SBJ PP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ S ADJP DEP S DEP NP-SBJ SBAR DEP VP DEP NP-OBJ DEP
0 3 5 5 1 5 10 10 10 6 1 1 14 1 14 17 14 19 20 17 20 20 24 22 1
when the dollar is in a free-fall , even central banks ca n't stop it .
WRB DT NN VBZ IN DT NN , RB JJ NNS MD RB VB PRP .
SBAR DEP NP-SBJ S PP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP VP NP-OBJ DEP
12 3 4 1 4 7 5 12 11 11 12 0 12 12 14 12
speculators are calling for a degree of liquidity that is not there in the market . ''
NNS VBP VBG IN DT NN IN NN WDT VBZ RB RB IN DT NN . ''
NP-SBJ ROOT VP PP DEP NP PP NP SBAR S DEP ADVP PP DEP NP DEP DEP
2 0 2 3 6 4 6 7 6 9 10 10 10 15 13 2 2
many money managers and some traders had already left their offices early friday afternoon on a warm autumn day -- because the stock market was so quiet .
JJ NN NNS CC DT NNS VBD RB VBN PRP$ NNS RB NNP NN IN DT JJ NN NN : IN DT NN NN VBD RB JJ .
DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT ADVP VP DEP NP-OBJ DEP DEP NP PP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP SBAR DEP DEP NP-SBJ S DEP ADJP DEP
3 3 6 6 6 7 0 7 7 11 9 14 14 9 9 19 19 19 15 9 9 24 24 25 21 27 25 7
then in a lightning plunge , the dow jones industrials in barely an hour surrendered about a third of their gains this year , chalking up a 190.58-point , or 6.9 % , loss on the day in gargantuan trading volume .
RB IN DT NN NN , DT NNP NNP NNS IN RB DT NN VBD IN DT JJ IN PRP$ NNS DT NN , VBG RP DT JJ , CC CD NN , NN IN DT NN IN JJ NN NN .
DEP PP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ PP QP DEP NP ROOT QP DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP DEP NP DEP S PRT DEP ADJP DEP DEP DEP ADJP DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP PP DEP DEP NP DEP
15 15 5 5 2 15 10 10 10 15 15 14 12 11 0 18 16 15 18 21 23 23 19 15 15 25 34 32 32 32 32 34 32 25 34 37 35 25 41 41 38 15
final-hour trading accelerated to 108.1 million shares , a record for the big board .
JJ NN VBN TO CD CD NNS , DT NN IN DT NNP NNP .
DEP NP-SBJ ROOT PP DEP QP NP DEP DEP NP PP DEP DEP NP DEP
2 3 0 3 6 7 10 10 10 4 10 14 14 11 3
at the end of the day , 251.2 million shares were traded .
IN DT NN IN DT NN , CD CD NNS VBD VBN .
PP DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP DEP QP NP-SBJ ROOT VP DEP
11 3 1 3 6 4 11 9 10 11 0 11 11
the dow jones industrials closed at 2569.26 .
DT NNP NNP NNS VBD IN CD .
DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT PP NP DEP
4 4 4 5 0 5 6 5
the dow 's decline was second in point terms only to the 508-point black monday crash that occurred oct. 19 , 1987 .
DT NNP POS NN VBD JJ IN NN NNS RB TO DT JJ JJ NNP NN WDT VBD NNP CD , CD .
DEP DEP NP NP-SBJ ROOT ADJP PP DEP NP ADVP PP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP SBAR S NP DEP DEP DEP DEP
3 3 4 5 0 5 6 9 7 11 6 16 16 16 16 11 16 17 18 19 19 19 5
in percentage terms , however , the dow 's dive was the 12th-worst ever and the sharpest since the market fell 156.83 , or 8 % , a week after black monday .
IN NN NNS , RB , DT NNP POS NN VBD DT NN RB CC DT JJS IN DT NN VBD CD , CC CD NN , DT NN IN NNP NNP .
PP DEP NP DEP ADVP DEP DEP DEP NP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP NP ADVP DEP DEP NP-PRD SBAR DEP NP-SBJ S NP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP
11 3 1 11 11 11 9 9 10 11 0 13 17 13 17 17 11 17 20 21 18 26 26 26 26 21 21 29 30 21 32 30 11
the dow fell 22.6 % on black monday .
DT NNP VBD CD NN IN JJ NNP .
DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP
2 3 0 5 3 3 8 6 3
shares of ual , the parent of united airlines , were extremely active all day friday , reacting to news and rumors about the proposed $ 6.79 billion buy-out of the airline by an employee-management group .
NNS IN NNP , DT NN IN NNP NNPS , VBD RB JJ DT NN NNP , VBG TO NN CC NNS IN DT VBN $ CD CD NN IN DT NN IN DT NN NN .
NP-SBJ PP NP DEP DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP ROOT DEP ADJP DEP NP NP DEP S PP DEP DEP NP PP DEP DEP ADJP DEP DEP NP PP DEP NP PP DEP DEP NP DEP
11 1 6 6 6 2 6 9 7 6 0 13 11 15 11 11 11 11 18 22 22 19 22 29 29 29 26 26 23 29 32 30 29 36 36 33 11
wall street 's takeover-stock speculators , or `` risk arbitragers , '' had placed unusually large bets that a takeover would succeed and ual stock would rise .
NNP NNP POS NN NNS , CC `` NN NNS , '' VBD VBN RB JJ NNS IN DT NN MD VB CC NNP NN MD VB .
DEP DEP NP DEP NX DEP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ DEP DEP ROOT VP DEP ADJP NP-OBJ SBAR DEP NP-SBJ S VP DEP DEP NP-SBJ S VP DEP
3 3 10 5 10 10 10 10 10 13 10 10 0 13 16 17 14 17 20 21 26 21 26 25 26 18 26 13
at 2:43 p.m. edt , came the sickening news : the big board was halting trading in ual , `` pending news . ''
IN CD RB NNP , VBD DT JJ NN : DT NNP NNP VBD VBG NN IN NNP , `` VBG NN . ''
PP DEP DEP NP DEP SINV DEP DEP NP-SBJ DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP NP-OBJ PP NP DEP DEP PP NP DEP DEP
6 4 4 1 6 14 9 9 6 14 13 13 14 0 14 15 16 17 15 15 15 21 14 14
on the exchange floor , `` as soon as ual stopped trading , we braced for a panic , '' said one top floor trader .
IN DT NN NN , `` RB RB IN NNP VBD VBG , PRP VBD IN DT NN , '' VBD CD JJ NN NN .
PP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP ADVP DEP SBAR NP-SBJ S S DEP NP-SBJ S PP DEP NP DEP DEP ROOT DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ DEP
15 4 4 1 15 15 15 7 7 11 9 11 15 15 21 15 18 16 21 21 0 25 25 25 21 21
several traders could be seen shaking their heads when the news flashed .
JJ NNS MD VB VBN VBG PRP$ NNS WRB DT NN VBD .
DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP VP S DEP NP-OBJ SBAR DEP NP-SBJ S DEP
2 3 0 3 4 5 8 6 5 11 12 9 3
for weeks , the market had been nervous about takeovers , after campeau corp. 's cash crunch spurred concern about the prospects for future highly leveraged takeovers .
IN NNS , DT NN VBD VBN JJ IN NNS , IN NNP NNP POS NN NN VBN NN IN DT NNS IN NN RB JJ NNS .
PP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP ADJP PP NP DEP SBAR DEP DEP NP DEP NP-SBJ S NP-OBJ PP DEP NP PP DEP DEP ADJP NP DEP
6 1 6 5 6 0 6 7 8 9 7 7 15 15 17 17 18 12 18 19 22 20 22 27 26 27 23 6
and 10 minutes after the ual trading halt came news that the ual group could n't get financing for its bid .
CC CD NNS IN DT NNP NN NN VBD NN IN DT NNP NN MD RB VB NN IN PRP$ NN .
DEP DEP NP PP DEP DEP DEP NP ROOT NP-SBJ SBAR DEP DEP NP-SBJ S DEP VP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP DEP
9 3 4 9 8 8 8 4 0 9 10 14 14 15 11 15 15 17 18 21 19 9
at this point , the dow was down about 35 points .
IN DT NN , DT NNP VBD IN IN CD NNS .
PP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT ADVP QP DEP NP DEP
7 3 1 7 6 7 0 7 11 9 8 7
the market crumbled .
DT NN VBD .
DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP
2 3 0 3
arbitragers could n't dump their ual stock -- but they rid themselves of nearly every `` rumor '' stock they had .
NNS MD RB VB PRP$ NNP NN : CC PRP VB PRP IN RB DT `` NN '' NN PRP VBD .
NP-SBJ S DEP VP DEP DEP NP-OBJ DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT NP-OBJ PP DEP ADJP DEP DEP DEP NP NP-SBJ SBAR DEP
2 11 2 2 7 7 4 11 11 11 0 11 11 15 19 19 19 19 13 21 19 11
for example , their selling caused trading halts to be declared in usair group , which closed down 3 7\/8 to 41 1\/2 , delta air lines , which fell 7 3\/4 to 69 1\/4 , and philips industries , which sank 3 to 21 1\/2 .
IN NN , PRP$ NN VBD NN NNS TO VB VBN IN NNP NNP , WDT VBD IN CD CD TO CD CD , NNP NNP NNPS , WDT VBD CD CD TO CD CD , CC NNP NNPS , WDT VBD CD TO CD CD .
PP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP NP-SBJ DEP S VP PP DEP NP DEP SBAR S ADVP DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP SBAR S DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP SBAR S NP PP DEP NP DEP
6 1 6 5 6 0 8 10 10 6 10 11 14 39 14 14 16 17 20 18 18 23 21 39 27 27 39 27 27 29 32 30 30 35 33 39 39 39 12 39 39 41 42 42 46 44 6
these stocks eventually reopened .
DT NNS RB VBD .
DEP NP-SBJ ADVP ROOT DEP
2 4 4 0 4
but as panic spread , speculators began to sell blue-chip stocks such as philip morris and international business machines to offset their losses .
CC IN NN NN , NNS VBD TO VB JJ NNS JJ IN NNP NNP CC NNP NNP NNS TO VB PRP$ NNS .
DEP SBAR NP-SBJ S DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP S DEP NP-OBJ DEP PP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP S DEP NP-OBJ DEP
7 7 4 2 7 7 0 9 7 11 9 13 11 15 19 19 19 19 13 21 9 23 21 7
when trading was halted in philip morris , the stock was trading at 41 , down 3 3\/8 , while ibm closed 5 5\/8 lower at 102 .
WRB NN VBD VBN IN NNP NNP , DT NN VBD VBG IN CD , RB CD CD , IN NNP VBD CD CD JJR IN CD .
SBAR NP-SBJ S VP PP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP PP NP DEP ADVP DEP NP DEP SBAR NP-SBJ S DEP NP ADVP PP NP DEP
11 3 1 3 4 7 5 11 10 11 0 11 12 13 12 12 18 16 12 12 22 20 24 25 22 22 26 11
selling snowballed because of waves of automatic `` stop-loss '' orders , which are triggered by computer when prices fall to certain levels .
VBG VBN IN IN NNS IN JJ `` NN '' NNS , WDT VBP VBN IN NN WRB NNS VBP TO JJ NNS .
NP-SBJ ROOT PP DEP NP PP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP SBAR S VP PP NP SBAR NP-SBJ S PP DEP NP DEP
2 0 2 3 3 5 11 11 11 11 6 11 11 13 14 15 16 15 20 18 20 23 21 2
most of the stock selling pressure came from wall street professionals , including computer-guided program traders .
JJS IN DT NN NN NN VBD IN NNP NNP NNS , VBG JJ NN NNS .
NP-SBJ PP DEP DEP DEP NP ROOT PP DEP DEP NP DEP PP DEP DEP NP DEP
7 1 6 6 6 2 0 7 11 11 8 11 11 16 16 13 7
traders said most of their major institutional investors , on the other hand , sat tight .
NNS VBD JJS IN PRP$ JJ JJ NNS , IN DT JJ NN , VBD RB .
NP-SBJ ROOT NP-SBJ PP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP PP DEP DEP NP DEP SBAR ADVP DEP
2 0 15 3 8 8 8 4 15 15 13 13 10 15 2 15 2
now , at 3:07 , one of the market 's post-crash `` reforms '' took hold as the s&p 500 futures contract had plunged 12 points , equivalent to around a 100-point drop in the dow industrials .
RB , IN CD , CD IN DT NN POS JJ `` NNS '' VBD NN IN DT NNP CD NNS NN VBD VBN CD NNS , JJ TO RB DT JJ NN IN DT NNP NNS .
ADVP DEP PP NP DEP NP-SBJ PP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP DEP ROOT NP-OBJ SBAR DEP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ S VP DEP NP DEP ADJP PP QP DEP DEP NP PP DEP DEP NP DEP
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under an agreement signed by the big board and the chicago mercantile exchange , trading was temporarily halted in chicago .
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after the trading halt in the s&p 500 pit in chicago , waves of selling continued to hit stocks themselves on the big board , and specialists continued to notch prices down .
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as a result , the link between the futures and stock markets ripped apart .
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without the guidepost of stock-index futures -- the barometer of where traders think the overall stock market is headed -- many traders were afraid to trust stock prices quoted on the big board .
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the futures halt was even assailed by big board floor traders .
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`` it screwed things up , '' said one major specialist .
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this confusion effectively halted one form of program trading , stock index arbitrage , that closely links the futures and stock markets , and has been blamed by some for the market 's big swings .
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( in a stock-index arbitrage sell program , traders buy or sell big baskets of stocks and offset the trade in futures to lock in a price difference . )
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`` when the airline information came through , it cracked every model we had for the marketplace , '' said a managing director at one of the largest program-trading firms .
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`` we did n't even get a chance to do the programs we wanted to do . ''
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but stocks kept falling .
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the dow industrials were down 55 points at 3 p.m. before the futures-trading halt .
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at 3:30 p.m. , at the end of the `` cooling off '' period , the average was down 114.76 points .
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meanwhile , during the the s&p trading halt , s&p futures sell orders began piling up , while stocks in new york kept falling sharply .
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big board chairman john j. phelan said yesterday the circuit breaker `` worked well mechanically .
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i just think it 's nonproductive at this point to get into a debate if index arbitrage would have helped or hurt things . ''
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under another post-crash system , big board president richard grasso ( mr. phelan was flying to bangkok as the market was falling ) was talking on an `` inter-exchange hot line '' to the other exchanges , the securities and exchange commission and the federal reserve board .
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he camped out at a high-tech nerve center on the floor of the big board , where he could watch updates on prices and pending stock orders .
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at about 3:30 p.m. edt , s&p futures resumed trading , and for a brief time the futures and stock markets started to come back in line .
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buyers stepped in to the futures pit .
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but the build-up of s&p futures sell orders weighed on the market , and the link with stocks began to fray again .
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at about 3:45 , the s&p market careened to still another limit , of 30 points down , and trading was locked again .
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futures traders say the s&p was signaling that the dow could fall as much as 200 points .
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during this time , small investors began ringing their brokers , wondering whether another crash had begun .
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at prudential-bache securities inc. , which is trying to cater to small investors , some demoralized brokers thought this would be the final confidence-crusher .
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that 's when george l. ball , chairman of the prudential insurance co. of america unit , took to the internal intercom system to declare that the plunge was only `` mechanical . ''
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`` i have a hunch that this particular decline today is something ` more ado about less . '
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it would be my inclination to advise clients not to sell , to look for an opportunity to buy , '' mr. ball told the brokers .
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at merrill lynch & co. , the nation 's biggest brokerage firm , a news release was prepared headlined `` merrill lynch comments on market drop . ''
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the release cautioned that `` there are significant differences between the current environment and that of october 1987 '' and that there are still `` attractive investment opportunities '' in the stock market .
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however , jeffrey b. lane , president of shearson lehman hutton inc. , said that friday 's plunge is `` going to set back '' relations with customers , `` because it reinforces the concern of volatility .
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and i think a lot of people will harp on program trading .
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it 's going to bring the debate right back to the forefront . ''
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as the dow average ground to its final 190.58 loss friday , the s&p pit stayed locked at its 30-point trading limit .
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jeffrey yass of program trader susquehanna investment group said 2,000 s&p contracts were for sale on the close , the equivalent of $ 330 million in stock .
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but there were no buyers .
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while friday 's debacle involved mainly professional traders rather than investors , it left the market vulnerable to continued selling this morning , traders said .
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stock-index futures contracts settled at much lower prices than indexes of the stock market itself .
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at those levels , stocks are set up to be hammered by index arbitragers , who lock in profits by buying futures when futures prices fall , and simultaneously sell off stocks .
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but nobody knows at what level the futures and stocks will open today .
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the de-linkage between the stock and futures markets friday will undoubtedly cause renewed debate about whether wall street is properly prepared for another crash situation .
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the big board 's mr. grasso said , `` our systemic performance was good . ''
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but the exchange will `` look at the performance of all specialists in all stocks .
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obviously we 'll take a close look at any situation in which we think the dealer-community obligations were n't met , '' he said .
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( see related story : `` fed ready to inject big funds '' -- wsj oct. 16 , 1989 )
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but specialists complain privately that just as in the 1987 crash , the `` upstairs '' firms -- big investment banks that support the market by trading big blocks of stock -- stayed on the sidelines during friday 's blood-letting .
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mr. phelan said , `` it will take another day or two '' to analyze who was buying and selling friday .
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concerning your sept. 21 page-one article on prince charles and the leeches : it 's a few hundred years since england has been a kingdom .
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it 's now the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland , comprising wales , northern ireland , scotland , and ... oh yes , england , too .
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just thought you 'd like to know .
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george morton
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ports of call inc. reached agreements to sell its remaining seven aircraft to buyers that were n't disclosed .
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the agreements bring to a total of nine the number of planes the travel company has sold this year as part of a restructuring .
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the company said a portion of the $ 32 million realized from the sales will be used to repay its bank debt and other obligations resulting from the currently suspended air-charter operations .
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earlier the company announced it would sell its aging fleet of boeing co. 707s because of increasing maintenance costs .
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a consortium of private investors operating as ljh funding co. said it has made a $ 409 million cash bid for most of l.j. hooker corp. 's real-estate and shopping-center holdings .
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the $ 409 million bid includes the assumption of an estimated $ 300 million in secured liabilities on those properties , according to those making the bid .
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the group is led by jay shidler , chief executive officer of shidler investment corp. in honolulu , and a. boyd simpson , chief executive of the atlanta-based simpson organization inc .
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mr. shidler 's company specializes in commercial real-estate investment and claims to have $ 1 billion in assets ; mr. simpson is a developer and a former senior executive of l.j. hooker .
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`` the assets are good , but they require more money and management '' than can be provided in l.j. hooker 's current situation , said mr. simpson in an interview . ``
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hooker 's philosophy was to build and sell .
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2 3 4 0 6 4 6 6 4
we want to build and hold . ''
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l.j. hooker , based in atlanta , is operating with protection from its creditors under chapter 11 of the u.s. bankruptcy code .
NNP NNP , VBN IN NNP , VBZ VBG IN NN IN PRP$ NNS IN NN CD IN DT NNP NNP NNP .
DEP NP-SBJ DEP VP PP NP DEP ROOT VP PP NP PP DEP NP PP NP DEP PP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP
2 8 2 2 4 5 2 0 8 9 10 11 14 12 11 15 16 16 22 22 22 18 8
its parent company , hooker corp. of sydney , australia , is currently being managed by a court-appointed provisional liquidator .
PRP$ NN NN , NNP NNP IN NNP , NNP , VBZ RB VBG VBN IN DT JJ JJ NN .
DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ PP NP DEP NP DEP ROOT ADVP VP VP PP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP
3 3 6 6 6 12 6 10 10 7 6 0 12 12 14 15 20 20 20 16 12
sanford sigoloff , chief executive of l.j. hooker , said yesterday in a statement that he has not yet seen the bid but that he would review it and bring it to the attention of the creditors committee .
NNP NNP , JJ NN IN NNP NNP , VBD NN IN DT NN IN PRP VBZ RB RB VBN DT NN CC IN PRP MD VB PRP CC VB PRP TO DT NN IN DT NNS NN .
DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ PP DEP NP DEP ROOT NP PP DEP NP SBAR NP-SBJ S DEP ADVP VP DEP NP-OBJ DEP SBAR NP-SBJ S VP NP-OBJ DEP VP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP PP DEP DEP NP DEP
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the $ 409 million bid is estimated by mr. simpson as representing 75 % of the value of all hooker real-estate holdings in the u.s. .
DT $ CD CD NN VBZ VBN IN NNP NNP IN VBG CD NN IN DT NN IN DT NNP NN NNS IN DT NNP .
DEP ADJP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP PP DEP NP PP S DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP PP DEP DEP DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP
5 5 2 2 6 0 6 7 10 8 7 11 14 12 14 17 15 17 22 22 22 18 22 25 23 6
not included in the bid are bonwit teller or b. altman & co. , l.j. hooker 's department-store chains .
RB VBN IN DT NN VBP NNP NNP CC NNP NNP CC NNP , NNP NNP POS NN NNS .
DEP VP PP DEP NP ROOT DEP NP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP NP-SBJ DEP
2 6 2 5 3 0 8 13 13 13 13 13 19 19 17 17 19 19 6 6
the offer covers the massive 1.8 million-square-foot forest fair mall in cincinnati , the 800,000 square-foot richland fashion mall in columbia , s.c. , and the 700,000 square-foot thornton town center mall in thornton , colo .
DT NN VBZ DT JJ CD JJ NN JJ NN IN NNP , DT CD NN JJ NN NN IN NNP , NNP , CC DT CD NN NNP NNP NNP NN IN NNP , NNP .
DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP PP NP DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP PP NP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP-OBJ PP NP DEP NP DEP
2 3 0 10 10 10 10 10 10 32 10 11 32 19 19 19 19 19 32 19 23 23 20 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 3 32 36 36 33 3
the thornton mall opened sept. 19 with a bigg 's hypermarket as its anchor ; the columbia mall is expected to open nov. 15 .
DT NNP NN VBD NNP CD IN DT NN POS NN IN PRP$ NNP : DT NNP NN VBZ VBN TO VB NNP CD .
DEP DEP NP-SBJ S NP DEP PP DEP DEP NP NP PP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP DEP S NP DEP DEP
3 3 4 19 4 5 4 11 10 11 7 11 14 12 19 18 18 19 0 19 22 20 22 23 19
other hooker properties included are a 20-story office tower in midtown atlanta , expected to be completed next february ; vacant land sites in florida and ohio ; l.j. hooker international , the commercial real-estate brokerage company that once did business as merrill lynch commercial real estate , plus other shopping centers .
JJ NNP NNS VBD VBP DT JJ NN NN IN NNP NNP , VBN TO VB VBN IN NNP : JJ NN NNS IN NNP CC NNP : NNP NNP NNP , DT JJ NN NN NN WDT RB VBD NN IN NNP NNP NNP NNP NN , CC JJ NN NNS .
DEP DEP NP-SBJ VP ROOT DEP DEP DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP VP DEP S VP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP PP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP SBAR ADVP S NP-OBJ PP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP-PRD DEP
3 3 5 3 0 9 9 9 52 9 12 10 9 9 16 14 16 19 17 52 23 23 52 23 27 27 24 52 31 31 37 37 37 37 37 37 52 37 40 38 40 40 47 47 47 47 42 52 52 52 52 5 5
the consortium was put together by hoare govett , the london-based investment banking company that is a subsidiary of security pacific corp .
DT NN VBD VBN RB IN NNP NNP , DT JJ NN NN NN WDT VBZ DT NN IN NNP NNP NNP .
DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP ADVP PP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP SBAR S DEP NP-PRD PP DEP DEP NP DEP
2 3 0 3 4 4 8 14 14 14 14 14 14 6 14 15 18 16 18 22 22 19 3
`` we do n't anticipate any problems in raising the funding for the bid , '' said allan campbell , the head of mergers and acquisitions at hoare govett , in an interview .
`` PRP VBP RB VB DT NNS IN VBG DT NN IN DT NN , '' VBD NNP NNP , DT NN IN NNS CC NNS IN NNP NNP , IN DT NN .
DEP NP-SBJ S DEP VP DEP NP-OBJ PP S DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP DEP DEP ROOT DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ PP DEP DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP PP DEP NP DEP
17 3 17 3 3 7 5 7 8 11 9 11 14 12 17 17 0 19 22 22 22 17 22 26 26 23 22 29 27 17 17 33 31 17
hoare govett is acting as the consortium 's investment bankers .
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DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP PP DEP DEP NP DEP NP DEP
2 3 0 3 4 8 8 10 10 5 3
according to people familiar with the consortium , the bid was code-named project klute , a reference to the film `` klute '' in which a prostitute played by actress jane fonda is saved from a psychotic businessman by a police officer named john klute .
VBG TO NNS JJ IN DT NN , DT NN VBD JJ NN NN , DT NN TO DT NN `` FW '' IN WDT DT NN VBN IN NN NNP NNP VBZ VBN IN DT JJ NN IN DT NN NN VBD NNP NNP .
PP PP NP ADJP PP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP DEP NP DEP DEP S PP DEP NP DEP NX DEP SBAR WHNP DEP NP-SBJ VP PP DEP DEP NP S VP PP DEP DEP NP PP DEP DEP NP VP DEP S DEP
11 1 2 3 4 7 5 11 10 11 0 11 14 17 17 17 12 17 20 18 20 20 20 20 24 27 33 27 28 32 32 29 24 33 34 38 38 35 34 42 42 39 42 45 43 11
l.j. hooker was a small home-building company based in atlanta in 1979 when mr. simpson was hired to push it into commercial development .
NNP NNP VBD DT JJ NN NN VBN IN NNP IN CD WRB NNP NNP VBD VBN TO VB PRP IN JJ NN .
DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP DEP DEP NP-PRD VP PP NP PP NP SBAR DEP NP-SBJ S VP DEP S NP-OBJ PP DEP NP DEP
2 3 0 7 7 7 3 7 8 9 3 11 12 15 16 13 16 19 17 19 19 23 21 3
the company grew modestly until 1986 , when a majority position in hooker corp. was acquired by australian developer george herscu , currently hooker 's chairman .
DT NN VBD RB IN CD , WRB DT NN NN IN NNP NNP VBD VBN IN NNP NNP NNP NNP , NNP NNP POS NN .
DEP NP-SBJ ROOT ADVP PP NP DEP SBAR DEP DEP NP-SBJ PP DEP NP S VP PP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP ADVP DEP NP NP DEP
2 3 0 3 3 5 6 6 11 11 15 11 14 12 8 15 16 21 21 21 26 26 26 25 26 17 3
mr. herscu proceeded to launch an ambitious , but ill-fated , $ 1 billion acquisition binge that included bonwit teller and b. altman & co. , as well as majority positions in merksamer jewelers , a sacramento chain ; sakowitz inc. , the houston-based retailer , and parisian inc. , the southeast department-store chain .
NNP NNP VBD TO VB DT JJ , CC JJ , $ CD CD NN NN WDT VBD NNP NNP CC NNP NNP CC NNP , RB RB IN NN NNS IN NNP NNPS , DT NNP NN : NNP NNP , DT JJ NN , CC NNP NNP , DT NNP NN NN .
DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP S DEP DEP DEP DEP ADJP DEP ADJP DEP DEP DEP NP-OBJ SBAR S DEP NP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP CONJP DEP DEP DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP
2 3 0 5 3 16 10 10 10 16 10 16 12 12 16 5 16 17 20 25 25 25 25 25 31 31 31 27 27 31 18 31 34 38 38 38 38 54 54 41 45 45 45 45 54 54 54 49 54 54 54 54 54 32 3
eventually mr. simpson and mr. herscu had a falling out over the direction of the company , and mr. simpson said he resigned in 1988 .
RB NNP NNP CC NNP NNP VBD DT VBG RP IN DT NN IN DT NN , CC NNP NNP VBD PRP VBD IN CD .
ADVP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ S DEP NP-OBJ DEP PP DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT NP-SBJ SBAR PP NP DEP
21 3 6 6 6 7 21 9 7 9 7 13 11 13 16 14 21 21 20 21 0 23 21 23 24 21
since then , hooker corp. has sold its interest in the parisian chain back to parisian 's management and is currently attempting to sell the b. altman & co. chain .
IN RB , NNP NNP VBZ VBN PRP$ NN IN DT JJ NN RB TO NNP POS NN CC VBZ RB VBG TO VB DT NNP NNP CC NNP NN .
PP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP DEP NP ADVP PP DEP NP NP DEP VP ADVP VP DEP S DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP-OBJ DEP
6 1 6 5 6 0 6 9 7 9 13 13 10 7 14 17 18 15 6 6 20 20 24 22 30 30 30 30 30 24 6
in addition , robert sakowitz , chief executive of the sakowitz chain , is seeking funds to buy out the hooker interest in his company .
IN NN , NNP NNP , JJ NN IN DT NNP NN , VBZ VBG NNS TO VB RP DT NNP NN IN PRP$ NN .
PP NP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ PP DEP DEP NP DEP ROOT VP NP-OBJ DEP SBAR PRT DEP DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP DEP
14 1 14 5 8 8 8 14 8 12 12 9 8 0 14 15 18 16 18 22 22 18 22 25 23 14
the merksamer chain is currently being offered for sale by first boston corp .
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DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT ADVP VP VP PP NP PP DEP DEP NP DEP
3 3 4 0 4 4 6 7 8 7 13 13 10 4
reached in honolulu , mr. shidler said that he believes the various hooker malls can become profitable with new management .
VBN IN NNP , NNP NNP VBD IN PRP VBZ DT JJ NNP NNS MD VB JJ IN JJ NN .
S PP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT SBAR NP-SBJ S DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ SBAR VP ADJP PP DEP NP DEP
7 1 2 7 6 7 0 7 10 8 14 14 14 15 10 15 16 16 20 18 7
`` these are n't mature assets , but they have the potential to be so , '' said mr. shidler .
`` DT VBP RB JJ NNS , CC PRP VBP DT JJ TO VB RB , '' VBD NNP NNP .
DEP NP-SBJ S DEP DEP NP-PRD DEP DEP NP-SBJ S DEP NP-OBJ DEP SBAR ADVP DEP DEP ROOT DEP NP-SBJ DEP
18 3 10 3 6 3 10 10 10 18 12 10 14 12 14 18 18 0 20 18 18
`` managed properly , and with a long-term outlook , these can become investment-grade quality properties .
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DEP S UCP DEP DEP PP DEP DEP NP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP DEP DEP NP-PRD DEP
12 12 2 3 3 3 9 9 6 12 12 0 12 16 16 13 12
canadian steel-ingot production totaled 291,890 metric tons in the week ended oct. 7 , up 14.8 % from the preceding week 's total of 254,280 tons , statistics canada , a federal agency , said .
JJ NN NN VBD CD JJ NNS IN DT NN VBN NNP CD , RB CD NN IN DT VBG NN POS NN IN CD NNS , NNPS NNP , DT JJ NN , VBD .
DEP DEP NP-SBJ S DEP DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP VP NP DEP DEP ADVP DEP NP PP DEP DEP DEP NP NP PP DEP NP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ DEP ROOT DEP
3 3 4 35 7 7 4 4 10 8 10 11 12 4 4 17 15 15 22 22 22 23 18 23 26 24 35 29 33 33 33 33 35 33 0 35
the week 's total was up 6.2 % from 274,963 tons a year earlier .
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3 3 4 5 0 5 8 6 6 11 9 13 14 9 5
the year-to-date total was 12,006,883 tons , up 7.8 % from 11,141,711 tons a year earlier .
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3 3 4 0 6 4 4 4 10 8 8 13 11 15 16 11 4
the treasury plans to raise $ 175 million in new cash thursday by selling about $ 9.75 billion of 52-week bills and redeeming $ 9.58 billion of maturing bills .
DT NNP NNS TO VB $ CD CD IN JJ NN NNP IN VBG IN $ CD CD IN JJ NNS CC VBG $ CD CD IN VBG NNS .
DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP S NP-OBJ DEP DEP PP DEP NP NP PP S DEP NP-OBJ DEP DEP PP DEP NP DEP VP DEP DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP DEP
2 3 0 5 3 5 6 6 6 11 9 5 5 13 16 14 16 16 16 21 19 14 14 26 26 23 26 29 27 3
the bills will be dated oct. 26 and will mature oct. 25 , 1990 .
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2 3 0 3 4 5 6 3 3 9 10 11 11 11 3
they will be available in minimum denominations of $ 10,000 .
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2 0 2 3 4 7 5 7 10 8 2
bids must be received by 1 p.m. edt thursday at the treasury or at federal reserve banks or branches .
NNS MD VB VBN IN CD RB NNP NNP IN DT NNP CC IN NNP NNP NNS CC NNS .
NP-SBJ ROOT VP VP PP DEP DEP NP NP PP DEP NP DEP PP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP
2 0 2 3 4 8 8 5 4 4 12 10 10 10 19 19 19 19 14 2
as small investors peppered their mutual funds with phone calls over the weekend , big fund managers said they have a strong defense against any wave of withdrawals : cash .
IN JJ NNS VBD PRP$ JJ NNS IN NN NNS IN DT NN , JJ NN NNS VBD PRP VBP DT JJ NN IN DT NN IN NNS : NN .
SBAR DEP NP-SBJ S DEP DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT NP-SBJ SBAR DEP DEP NP PP DEP NP PP NP DEP NP-OBJ DEP
18 3 4 1 7 7 4 4 10 8 4 13 11 18 17 17 18 0 20 18 23 23 30 23 26 24 26 27 30 20 18
unlike the weekend before black monday , the funds were n't swamped with heavy withdrawal requests .
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PP DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP VP PP DEP DEP NP DEP
10 3 1 3 6 4 10 9 10 0 10 10 12 16 16 13 10
and many fund managers have built up cash levels and say they will be buying stock this week .
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DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP PRT DEP NP-OBJ DEP VP NP-SBJ SBAR VP VP NP-OBJ DEP NP DEP
5 4 4 5 0 5 6 9 6 5 5 13 11 13 14 15 18 15 5
at fidelity investments , the nation 's largest fund company , telephone volume was up sharply , but it was still at just half the level of the weekend preceding black monday in 1987 .
IN NNP NNP , DT NN POS JJS NN NN , NN NN VBD RB RB , CC PRP VBD RB IN RB PDT DT NN IN DT NN VBG JJ NNP IN CD .
PP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ S ADVP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT ADVP PP QP DEP DEP NP PP DEP NP VP DEP NP-OBJ PP NP DEP
20 3 10 10 7 7 10 10 10 1 10 13 14 20 14 15 20 20 20 0 20 20 26 23 26 22 26 29 27 29 32 30 29 33 20
the boston firm said stock-fund redemptions were running at less than one-third the level two years ago .
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DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP NP-SBJ SBAR VP PP DEP QP DEP DEP NP DEP NP ADVP DEP
3 3 4 0 6 7 4 7 8 11 14 11 14 9 16 17 14 4
as of yesterday afternoon , the redemptions represented less than 15 % of the total cash position of about $ 2 billion of fidelity 's stock funds .
IN IN NN NN , DT NNS VBD RBR IN CD NN IN DT JJ NN NN IN IN $ CD CD IN NNP POS NN NNS .
PP PP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP QP DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP DEP DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP DEP PP DEP NP DEP NP DEP
8 1 4 2 8 7 8 0 10 12 10 8 12 17 17 17 13 17 20 18 20 20 17 25 27 27 23 8
`` two years ago there were massive redemption levels over the weekend and a lot of fear around , '' said c. bruce johnstone , who runs fidelity investments ' $ 5 billion equity-income fund .
`` CD NNS IN EX VBD JJ NN NNS IN DT NN CC DT NN IN NN IN , '' VBD NNP NNP NNP , WP VBZ NNP NNP POS $ CD CD NN NN .
DEP DEP NP ADVP NP-SBJ S DEP DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-PRD PP NP ADVP DEP DEP ROOT DEP DEP NP-SBJ DEP SBAR S DEP DEP NP ADJP DEP DEP DEP NP-OBJ DEP
21 3 4 6 6 21 9 9 15 9 12 10 15 15 6 15 16 15 21 21 0 24 24 21 24 24 26 30 30 35 35 31 31 35 27 21
`` this feels more like a one-shot deal .
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3 3 0 5 3 8 8 5 3
people are n't panicking . ''
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2 0 2 2 2 2
the test may come today .
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2 3 0 3 4 3
friday 's stock market sell-off came too late for many investors to act .
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DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT ADVP DEP SBAR DEP NP-SBJ DEP S DEP
2 5 5 5 6 0 6 7 7 11 13 13 9 6
some shareholders have held off until today because any fund exchanges made after friday 's close would take place at today 's closing prices .
DT NNS VBP VBN RP IN NN IN DT NN NNS VBD IN NNP POS NN MD VB NN IN NN POS NN NNS .
DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP PRT PP NP SBAR DEP DEP NP-SBJ VP PP DEP NP NP S VP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP DEP NP DEP
2 3 0 3 4 4 6 4 11 11 17 11 12 15 16 13 8 17 18 18 22 24 24 20 3
stock fund redemptions during the 1987 debacle did n't begin to snowball until after the market opened on black monday .
NNP NNP NNS IN DT CD NN VBD RB VB TO VB IN IN DT NN VBD IN NNP NNP .
DEP DEP NP-SBJ PP DEP DEP NP ROOT DEP VP DEP S PP SBAR DEP NP-SBJ S PP DEP NP DEP
3 3 8 8 7 7 4 0 8 8 12 10 10 13 16 17 14 17 20 18 8
but fund managers say they 're ready .
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4 3 4 0 6 4 6 4
many have raised cash levels , which act as a buffer against steep market declines .
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NP-SBJ ROOT VP DEP NP-OBJ DEP SBAR S PP DEP NP PP DEP DEP NP DEP
2 0 2 5 3 5 5 7 8 11 9 8 15 15 12 2
mario gabelli , for instance , holds cash positions well above 20 % in several of his funds .
NNP NNP , IN NN , VBZ NN NNS RB IN CD NN IN JJ IN PRP$ NNS .
DEP NP-SBJ DEP PP NP DEP ROOT DEP NP-OBJ ADVP PP DEP NP PP NP PP DEP NP DEP
2 7 7 7 4 7 0 9 7 11 9 13 11 7 14 15 18 16 7
windsor fund 's john neff and mutual series ' michael price said they had raised their cash levels to more than 20 % and 30 % , respectively , this year .
NNP NNP POS NNP NNP CC NNP NNP POS NNP NNP VBD PRP VBD VBN PRP$ NN NNS TO JJR IN CD NN CC CD NN , RB , DT NN .
DEP DEP NP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT NP-SBJ SBAR VP DEP DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP QP DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP DEP
3 3 5 5 11 11 9 9 11 11 12 0 14 12 14 18 18 15 15 21 28 21 21 21 21 21 28 19 15 31 15 12
even peter lynch , manager of fidelity 's $ 12.7 billion magellan fund , the nation 's largest stock fund , built up cash to 7 % or $ 850 million .
RB NNP NNP , NN IN NNP POS $ CD CD JJ NN , DT NN POS JJS NN NN , VBN IN NN TO CD NN CC $ CD CD .
DEP DEP NP DEP NP-SBJ PP DEP NP ADJP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP DEP ROOT PRT NP-OBJ PP DEP NP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP
3 3 5 5 22 5 8 13 13 9 9 13 20 20 17 17 20 20 20 6 22 0 22 22 22 27 29 29 25 29 29 22
one reason is that after two years of monthly net redemptions , the fund posted net inflows of money from investors in august and september .
CD NN VBZ IN IN CD NNS IN JJ NN NNS , DT NN VBD JJ NNS IN NN IN NNS IN NNP CC NNP .
DEP NP-SBJ ROOT SBAR PP DEP NP PP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ S DEP NP-OBJ PP NP PP NP PP DEP DEP NP DEP
2 3 0 3 15 7 5 7 11 11 8 15 14 15 4 17 15 17 18 17 20 15 25 25 22 3
`` i 've let the money build up , '' mr. lynch said , who added that he has had trouble finding stocks he likes .
`` PRP VBP VB DT NN VBN RP , '' NNP NNP VBD , WP VBD IN PRP VBZ VBN NN VBG NNS PRP VBZ .
DEP NP-SBJ S VP DEP NP-SBJ S PRT DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP SBAR S SBAR NP-SBJ S VP NP S NP-OBJ NP-SBJ SBAR DEP
13 3 13 3 6 7 4 7 13 13 12 13 0 13 13 15 16 19 17 19 20 20 22 25 23 13
not all funds have raised cash levels , of course .
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2 3 4 0 4 7 5 5 5 9 4
as a group , stock funds held 10.2 % of assets in cash as of august , the latest figures available from the investment company institute .
IN DT NN , NN NNS VBD CD NN IN NNS IN NN IN IN NNP , DT JJS NNS JJ IN DT NN NN NNP .
PP DEP NP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP NP-OBJ PP NP PP NP PP PP NP DEP DEP DEP NP-OBJ ADJP PP DEP DEP DEP NP DEP
7 3 1 7 6 7 0 9 7 9 10 7 12 7 14 15 7 20 20 7 20 21 26 26 26 22 7
that was modestly higher than the 8.8 % and 9.2 % levels in august and september of 1987 .
DT VBD RB JJR IN DT CD NN CC CD NN NNS IN NNP CC NNP IN CD .
NP-SBJ ROOT DEP ADJP PP DEP DEP ADJP DEP DEP DEP NP PP DEP DEP NP PP NP DEP
2 0 4 2 4 12 8 12 8 8 8 5 12 16 16 13 16 17 2
also , persistent redemptions would force some fund managers to dump stocks to raise cash .
RB , JJ NNS MD VB DT NN NNS TO VB NNS TO VB NN .
ADVP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT VP DEP DEP NP-SBJ DEP S NP-OBJ DEP S NP-OBJ DEP
5 5 4 5 0 5 9 9 11 11 6 11 14 11 14 5
but a strong level of investor withdrawals is much more unlikely this time around , fund managers said .
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DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ PP DEP NP S ADJP DEP DEP DEP NP ADVP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT DEP
18 4 4 8 4 7 5 18 8 9 9 13 8 13 18 17 18 0 18
a major reason is that investors already have sharply scaled back their purchases of stock funds since black monday .
DT JJ NN VBZ IN NNS RB VBP RB VBN RP PRP$ NNS IN NN NNS IN JJ NNP .
DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT SBAR NP-SBJ ADVP S ADVP VP PRT DEP NP-OBJ PP DEP NP PP DEP NP DEP
3 3 4 0 4 8 8 5 10 8 10 13 10 13 16 14 10 19 17 4
stock-fund sales have rebounded in recent months , but monthly net purchases are still running at less than half 1987 levels .
NN NNS VBP VBN IN JJ NNS , CC JJ NN NNS VBP RB VBG IN JJR IN DT CD NNS .
DEP NP-SBJ S VP PP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP DEP NP-SBJ ROOT ADVP VP PP DEP QP DEP DEP NP DEP
2 3 13 3 4 7 5 13 13 12 12 13 0 13 13 15 18 21 18 21 16 13
`` there 's not nearly as much froth , '' said john bogle , chairman of vanguard group inc. , a big valley forge , pa. , fund company .
`` EX VBZ RB RB RB JJ NN , '' VBD NNP NNP , NN IN NNP NNP NNP , DT JJ NNP NNP , NNP , NN NN .
DEP NP-SBJ S DEP DEP DEP ADJP NP-PRD DEP DEP ROOT DEP NP DEP NP-SBJ PP DEP DEP NP DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP NAC DEP DEP NP DEP
11 3 11 3 7 7 8 3 11 11 0 13 15 15 11 15 19 19 29 29 29 29 26 26 26 29 26 29 16 11
many fund managers argue that now 's the time to buy .
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vincent bajakian , manager of the $ 1.8 billion wellington fund , added to his positions in bristol-myers squibb , woolworth and dun & bradstreet friday .
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and today he 'll be looking to buy drug stocks like eli lilly , pfizer and american home products whose dividend yields have been bolstered by stock declines .
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fidelity 's mr. lynch , for his part , snapped up southern co. shares friday after the stock got hammered .
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if the market drops further today , he said he 'll be buying blue chips such as bristol-myers and kellogg .
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`` if they croak stocks like that , '' he said , it presents an opportunity that is `` the kind of thing you dream about . ''
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major mutual-fund groups said phone calls were arriving at twice the normal weekend pace yesterday .
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but most investors were seeking share prices and other information .
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trading volume was only modestly higher than normal .
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still , fund groups are n't taking any chances .
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they hope to avoid the jammed phone lines and other snags that infuriated some fund investors in october 1987 .
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fidelity on saturday opened its 54 walk-in investor centers across the country .
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the centers normally are closed through the weekend .
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in addition , east coast centers will open at 7:30 edt this morning , instead of the normal 8:30 .
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t. rowe price associates inc. increased its staff of phone representatives to handle investor requests .
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the baltimore-based group noted that some investors moved money from stock funds to money-market funds .
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but most investors seemed to be `` in an information mode rather than in a transaction mode , '' said steven norwitz , a vice president .
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and vanguard , among other groups , said it was adding more phone representatives today to help investors get through .
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in an unusual move , several funds moved to calm investors with recordings on their toll-free phone lines .
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`` we view { friday 's } market decline as offering us a buying opportunity as long-term investors , '' a recording at gabelli & co. funds said over the weekend .
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the janus group had a similar recording for investors .
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several fund managers expect a rough market this morning before prices stabilize .
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some early selling is likely to stem from investors and portfolio managers who want to lock in this year 's fat profits .
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stock funds have averaged a staggering gain of 25 % through september , according to lipper analytical services inc .
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elaine garzarelli , who runs shearson lehman hutton inc. 's $ 335 million sector analysis portfolio , predicts the market will open down at least 50 points on technical factors and `` some panic selling . ''
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but she expects prices to rebound soon and is telling investors she expects the stock market wo n't decline more than 10 % to 15 % from recent highs .
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`` this is not a major crash , '' she said .
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nevertheless , ms. garzarelli said she was swamped with phone calls over the weekend from nervous shareholders .
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`` half of them are really scared and want to sell , '' she said , `` but i 'm trying to talk them out of it . ''
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she added , `` if they all were bullish , i 'd really be upset . ''
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the backdrop to friday 's slide was markedly different from that of the october 1987 crash , fund managers argue .
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two years ago , unlike today , the dollar was weak , interest rates were rising and the market was very overvalued , they say .
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`` from the investors ' standpoint , institutions and individuals learned a painful lesson ... by selling at the lows '' on black monday , said stephen boesel , manager of the $ 580 million t. rowe price growth and income fund .
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this time , `` i do n't think we 'll get a panic reaction .
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newport corp. said it expects to report fiscal-first-quarter earnings of between 15 cents and 19 cents a share , somewhat below analysts ' estimates of 19 cents to 23 cents .
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the maker of scientific instruments and laser parts said orders fell below expectations in recent months .
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a spokesman added that sales in the current quarter will about equal the yearearlier quarter 's figure , when newport reported net income of $ 1.7 million , or 21 cents a share , on $ 14.1 million in sales .
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ripples from the strike by 55,000 machinists union members against boeing co. reached air carriers friday as america west airlines announced it will postpone its new service out of houston because of delays in receiving aircraft from the seattle jet maker .
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peter otradovec , vice president for planning at the phoenix , ariz. , carrier , said in an interview that the work stoppage at boeing , now entering its 13th day , `` has caused some turmoil in our scheduling '' and that more than 500 passengers who were booked to fly out of houston on america west would now be put on other airlines .
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mr. otradovec said boeing told america west that the 757 it was supposed to get this thursday would n't be delivered until nov. 7 -- the day after the airline had been planning to initiate service at houston with four daily flights , including three nonstops to phoenix and one nonstop to las vegas .
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now , those routes are n't expected to begin until jan .
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boeing is also supposed to send to america west another 757 twin-engine aircraft as well as a 737 by year 's end .
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