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Blue Chip Stock-Index Contracts Fuel Unusually Volatile Swings in Prices

Blue Chip Stock-Index Contracts Fuel Unusually Volatile Swings in Prices

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Blue Chip Stock-Index Contracts Fuel Unusually Volatile Swings in Prices

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Blue Chip Stock-Index Contracts Fuel Unusually Volatile Swings in Prices

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New York, N.Y: Dow Jones & Company Inc

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The Wall Street journal. Eastern edition, 1986-04-07

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English

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New York, N.Y: Dow Jones & Company Inc

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A growing number of big institutional traders are using a Chicago Board of Trade futures contract and an American Stock Exchange option on the Major Market Index. A Dow Jones Industrial Average "look-alike," the Major Market Index consists of 20 blue-chip stocks, including 15 of the 30 Dow Jones industrials. That compares with as many as 1,700 stoc...

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Blue Chip Stock-Index Contracts Fuel Unusually Volatile Swings in Prices

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TN_cdi_proquest_newspapers_398075909

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_newspapers_398075909

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0099-9660

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