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

To: HammerHead who wrote (31935)	10/18/1998 6:31:00 PM
From: TRINDY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Robert, Largest point gain, I believe. Top 20 weekly % gains since 1980 with week ending at specified date, always a Friday: 8/20/82 10.3% 10/8/82 8.7% 8/3/84 7.8% 5/30/86 6.6% 10/16/98 6.5% 11/5/82 6.1% 6/3/88 5.9% 1/18/91 5.8% 12/18/87 5.8% 11/14/80 5.8% 12/27/91 5.7% 12/11/87 5.7% 4/8/88 5.6% 3/14/86 5.5% 2/19/88 5.4% 4/25/80 5.3% 2/21/86 5.2% 10/19/90 5.1% 5/2/97 4.9% 5/31/91 4.9% Top 20 down weeks since 1980 12/12/80 -4.1% 4/4/97 -4.1% 8/15/97 -4.2% 9/18/81 -4.2% 8/24/90 -4.2% 7/24/98 -4.3% 4/24/87 -4.4% 1/26/90 -4.4% 10/12/90 -4.5% 1/9/98 -4.8% 3/7/80 -4.9% 9/4/98 -5.1% 3/25/88 -5.2% 8/28/98 -5.6% 10/9/87 -6.0% 9/12/86 -7.4% 12/4/87 -7.5% 10/13/89 -7.8% 10/16/87 -9.5% 10/23/87 -13.2% Note that three of the top 20 negatives are since mid July of this year. Only one top 20 positive is in 1998; last week's.