CBS Evening News - 2000-01-04

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[0:01] running for the exits investors worried

[0:04] about higher interest rates dump stocks

[0:07] and send prices plummeted the man with

[0:10] his hand on the interest rate button is

[0:12] reappointed head of the fed the widening

[0:15] anti-us bomb plot the latest on who may

[0:18] be involved and a possible motive plus

[0:21] health food stores rebel against

[0:23] genetically altered

[0:27] products this is the CBS evening

[0:31] news with Dan Rather reporting from CBS

[0:35] News headquarters in New

[0:37] York good evening there was a huge

[0:39] selloff on Wall Street today investors

[0:41] spooked again about the possibility of

[0:44] higher interest rates decided it was

[0:46] time to cash out and take some of the

[0:48] profits they made in 1999 that sent

[0:50] prices into a nose dive today the Dow

[0:53] plunged 359 points falling below 11,000

[0:57] the NASDAQ lost a record 220 9 points

[1:01] CBS News business correspondent Anthony

[1:03] Mason is on the market watch the bad

[1:05] news hit the NASDAQ shiny new Time

[1:08] Square headquarters hard the worst

[1:09] single session Point drop in history a 5

[1:12] and a half% plunge the Dow joined hands

[1:15] for the Swan Dive it's now lost nearly

[1:18] 500 points in the New Year first of all

[1:21] as they say in the old neighborhood we

[1:22] were cruising for a bruising we were

[1:25] vulnerable after the nasdaq's incredible

[1:27] 84% rise last year led by by smoking

[1:30] technology stocks Traders say it was

[1:32] time to take profits there was no Panic

[1:35] on the floor but oddly the selloff came

[1:38] the same day President Clinton nominated

[1:40] Alan Greenspan for a fourth term as

[1:43] Federal Reserve chairman he has created

[1:46] a tremendous confidence uh confiden

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