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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (70720)7/29/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 164684
 
''People are getting out of securities. They're selling stocks. They're selling bonds. They're not buying gold. They're getting
liquid,'' said Doug Myers, vice-president of equity trading at Interstate/Johnson Lane in Atlanta.

Its over Glenn.

Thursday July 29, 6:46 pm Eastern Time

FOCUS-U.S. data devastates shares, dollar, bonds

By Michael Hughes

LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - European bourses, already reeling from a string of bad
corporate results, were poleaxed on Thursday by higher-than-expected U.S. wages data,
seen increasing the likelihood of a rise in interest rates.

Bonds, the dollar and Wall Street stocks were also hurt by a U.S. Labor Department report that the second quarter
Employment Cost Index (ECI) rose 1.1 percent after a first-quarter rise of 0.4 percent.

''People are getting out of securities. They're selling stocks. They're selling bonds. They're not buying gold. They're getting
liquid,'' said Doug Myers, vice-president of equity trading at Interstate/Johnson Lane in Atlanta.