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Show BUSINESS Friday, October8, 1999 & ea ieee ppc Brees DTaes Judge Dismisses Suit Against Gun Makers a @ Steck Name: Thisis the abbreviation issued to eachstock. The ‘symbol uses no spaces. If you see a space, it iS to set aside a footnote. the city’s claims were vague and unsupported by legal precedent. “Tt very clearly points out the weaknesses in the other cities’ suits,” said Jim Dorr, a Chicago lawyer for gun makers Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc.. of Southport, Conn., and Smith & Wesson Corp., of Springfield, Mass. Dorr said Cincinnati's claims are similarto those advancedin 17 other lawsuits representing 27 city or county governments. Cincinnati'ssuit against manufacturers, a distributor three trade associations — manded reimbursement for gun and dethe costs of providing police, emergency, court andprisonservices in connection with shootings in the city, whether those shootings were homicidal, suicidal or accidental. Fed Hopes to Improve New Disclosure Policy disclosure policies, an- nounced Thursdayformationof a task force to recommend improvements. The working groupwill examine what modifications should be 3 madeto a policyit began in Mayof announcing immediatelyany significant changes in its policy directive. ‘ &A 3916 7 36 O76 2540 936 10% 4 sad Nee iGe Veran | Debs Ine z+ 248) 2/4 +" 208 15+ 5889 28 | DeliPre 7 BeresiNe 8 48 Hers 5 80 ‘S64 10 “389237 —Ya| Eurord 393178/ * HestarT 38° 927 254 Sa Te 3 Welder TM Zevex 75%_ 3M ZionBop SI 10 WNI_ NYSE 4 1 6 2VXI_ NASI 0 ZION NASD. 116 20 26 That directive signals the pos- sible future direction that interest “Wake up and. start trading. NYSE Val | Vol ECB EnIDS dlhn AAR M1510 172 3 ABN ot 581237 ACE tLid 720762 yd 16) Auto 20. 39737%/1 Now, no matter howearly you get up or howlate youstayup, you ease AMLRS 13264 21M YO UT Ye BERTCos 7S es aySv rates maybe headed at upcoming meetingsofthe Federal Open Marq 1.86 107 11 16 percentor more in the past 52 weeks. The higivlow range is adjusted frern the od Stock. Dividend begins with the date of spitor stock dividend, v— Trading halted on the primary market ‘Specie payments not designated as reguiar are ‘dentifed in the folowing footnotes: a— Also extra or extra, b — Annual rate plus stock dividend, c — Liquidating dividend, 6 — Declaredor pail in preceding ¥Zmonths. — Declared or paid after stock dividend or spi up. | Paid this year, dividend omitied, deferred or no action taken atlast dividend meeting. k — Declared paid this year, an accumulative issue with dividends in arrears. t — Declared or paid in preceding 12 months, plus stock dividend, t — Paid in stock in preceding 12 months, estimated cashvalueor ex-<vidend or ex-distibution date. x— Ex-dividend or exrights..y — Ex-dividend osales in full 2— Salesinful. pt — Preferred, pp — Holder owesinstallments)or purchase price. rt — Rights. un — Units. wd — When distributed. wi— When sued, wt— Warrants. ww — Win warrants. xw — Without ¥j—!n bankruptcy or receivership or being reorga fied under ie bankruptcyact, or securives assumed by such companies. @ PE: Price/Eairings ratio. The current market price of a com pany's stock expressad as a multiple of its total per earningsforthe previous 12 months. @ Vol: Numberof shares, in hundreds, thattraded hands. @ Last: The iastprice the stock sold for, oFthe closing price. @ Cha:Thechange betweeny terday's closing priceand the 3 vi 1B 1 247 61\/ 759924\9/22 previousday's close. WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve, concerned about the impacts on financial markets of its new & 8 Splil or stockdividend of 25 5 2 lawsuits across the country, lawyer for gun makers said Thursday. In thefirst dismissal of such a case, Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlmansaid 75 Pie é3pa BA) ori 3907 BH) 641 Die + 6868 Te 185 Ser/ no © be used to try and defeat similar @ Footnotes: u— A new 52-week high. d— Anew 52-week low. {q — Dividends or eamings in Canadian money. Stock tradesin U.S. dollars. No yield or PE unless statedin U.S. money. n— New issuehe past 2 weeks, High tar of trading and does nat coverthe entire ¢ CINCINNATI — A judge's di: missal of Cincinnati's lawsuit against the firearms industrywill oStetgRRBRckRRea ke TheSalt LakeTribune ket Committee, the group that meets eight times a year to set interest-rate policies. Before this year, the directive was never re: leased at the time of the FOMC mutual funds! To helpyou male the most of your money, we give can look up yourinvestments WOU piocdstenerenchitese aie online — whenever, wherever That's because Zions Direct Brokerage gives you online access quotes, market news and to inexpensive trading of stocks, reviews of yourportfolio. So if you have a nose for managing your own‘investments, optionsand more than 6,000 hit www. zionsdirect.com. meeting, It was madepublic when the minutes of those discussions werereleased two days following the next FOMCmeeting. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has championed q more openness in the normally secretive Fed operations, but finan. cial markets have had trouble in terpreting the signals the Fed is * Real-time quotes toward increasing interest rates or * Investment research * 24-hour account access trying to send. A change inthedi rectivefrom neutral to one leaning a reduc them is often not fol lowedat the next meetingby actual + Free, up-to-the- change in rates. minute news Consumer Borrowing Continues to Surge * Instant order and balance status WASHINGTON Americans borrowingraced ahead in August, posting the largest monthly in crease in months, + Easy-to led by strong demand for loans for every thing from autos and boats to edu eation and vacation Consumers’ credit outstandir excluding mortgage debt vanced at a 9.6 percent annual rate in August to a see onally adjusted $1.67 trillion, the Federal Reserve said Thursday Consumers borr< ‘ed $10.8 bil lion more in August than in the month before. Market Wrap-up Neekend Report Market Headiines S1SK# in the News Meadiine sto. gate site + Low cost on-line trades Bevel BlokD 715 beenO! 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