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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (47161)	4/26/2000 6:49:00 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 94695

>>Who can tell what's next for this roller coaster?<< I think you just said it... a roller coaster ride is now in store for these markets..... how prophetic.....<g> GZ

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (47161)	4/27/2000 9:58:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

USA Today: labor costs accelerating, biggest hike in 8 years Another pull for inflation in this roller coaster, tug-o-war market usatoday.com [...] the Labor Department said the cost of employing a U.S. worker surged a seasonally adjusted 1.4% in the first quarter, led by a spike in benefits costs. The rise in the employment cost index, which measures the cost to employers of employee wages, salaries and benefits, was far above economists' expectations of a 0.9% rise, and was the biggest increase since the third quarter of 1989. The employment cost index was up 4.3% from a year ago, the largest increase in more than eight years, and beating the 3.9% advance analysts had expected.