World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-10-01

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[0:04] on World News Tonight this Thursday

[0:06] Another Bad Day on stock markets all

[0:08] over the world global economic anxiety

[0:11] another massacre in Kosovo the US and

[0:14] its allies prepare to do something about

[0:16] it very slowly and the millennium bug

[0:20] leic Texas prepares for catastrophe

[0:24] Bangalore in India sees only profit

[0:32] from ABC News world headquarters in New

[0:36] York this is World News Tonight with

[0:39] Peter Jennings good evening we're going

[0:40] to begin with the stock market tonight

[0:42] investors all over the world appear to

[0:44] be spooked by the current trends in the

[0:46] global economy it was a gloomy day on

[0:48] the markets in Asia and Europe and South

[0:50] America the international monetary fund

[0:53] warns that there's a possibility of

[0:54] global recession in

[0:57] 1999 and today on Wall Street the Dow

[0:59] Jones Industrials lost 210 points to

[1:02] close at 7632 on the NASDAQ Market heavy

[1:06] with those technology companies stocks

[1:08] lost more than 81 points with almost

[1:11] half of American households invested in

[1:13] the market now the psychology of all

[1:16] this is very important our first report

[1:18] is from ABC's Betsy

[1:21] Stark another day another triple digit

[1:24] decline in just two days investors have

[1:27] shaved $1 109 billion off the value of

[1:30] the Dow Bank stocks led the downward

[1:33] march today fears that banks will stop

[1:36] lending the money businesses need to

[1:38] keep growing cast a p over the entire

[1:41] Market even fast growing technology

[1:43] giants like Dell Microsoft and Cisco now

[1:47] seem vulnerable to the worldwide

[1:50] slowdown the DOW Industrials have just

[1:52] closed out their worst quarter in8 years

[1:56] c

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