Around the World's Markets: New York
SHARES fell with bonds on fears that tomorrow's reports on retail sales and wholesale prices will prompt the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates at the end of the month. The Dow recovered 95 points of a 164-point fall in the last half hour after Fed chairman Alan Greenspan said nothing about interest rates in a speech at Harvard University.
Computer shares and financial companies led declines on every major US index. The S&P 500 fell 15.82 to 1,302.82 and the Nasdaq lost 34.75 points to 2,484.60.
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