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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (17935)	3/16/2000 8:54:00 AM
From: MythMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

housing starts jumped too. They report that? >>U.S. wholesale prices jumped 1 percent in February, the government said Thursday, above Wall Street forecasts, in the biggest gain in the producer price index in more than nine years. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, however, the ?core? PPI rose 0.3 percent, in line with economists? forecasts. Separately, housing starts rose in February while weekly jobless claims fell sharply, the latest signs of a strong economy. S&P futures rose after the reports, as investors apparently focused on the "core" reading, pointing to a higher open for the blue chips on Wall Street. <<