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April 18th, 2024
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MARKET MIRROR |
Wednesday, the Dow fell 45.66 points (0.12%) to close at 37,753.31, the Nasdaq fell 181.88 points (1.15%) to close at 15,683.37 and the S&P 500 fell 29.20 points (0.58%) to close at 5,022.21. The Russell 2000 lost 19.53 points (0.99%) to close at 1,947.95, and the FT Wilshire 5000 Index lost 308.17 points (0.61%) to close at 50,377.67.
The 10-year Treasury note rose 28/32, bringing the yield to 4.592%. The 30-year Treasury bond increased 1 point, bringing the yield to 4.704%.
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ON THIS DATE: In 1775, Paul Revere, a renowned silversmith, made a dramatic ride on horseback to warn Boston-area residents of an imminent attack by British troops. In 1906, San Francisco was rocked by an earthquake caused by slippage along the San Andreas Fault. In 1945, during the U.S. invasion of the Japanese island of Okinawa in World War II, war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese gunfire on nearby Ie Island. In 1955, German-American physicist Albert Einstein, best known for his famous E = mc2 formula, which states that energy and mass (matter) are the same thing, died at age 76 in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1956, abandoning her Hollywood career, actress Grace Kelly wed Rainier III, prince de Monaco, in a civil ceremony; an opulent religious ceremony took place the following day. In 1980, Zimbabwe achieved independence from the U.K. In 1999, Canadian ice hockey player Wayne Grestzky, considered one of the game’s greatest players, skated in his last NHL game. In 2012, television personality and businessman Dick Clark, the longtime host of “American Bandstand,” died in California.
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