A US semi-holiday (Veterans Day) and the specter of Greenspan & Co. meeting Wednesday to talk about interest rates made for slow trading on Wall Street. In early-afternoon activity the Dow was up 19 points, to 7572; the Nasdaq was up 1, to 1592. In Tokyo, the Nikkei gained 1.1 percent, while Frankfurt's DAX closed down 0.6 percent and London's FTSE 100 fell 0.3 percent.
Quiet Street
A US semi-holiday (Veterans Day) and the specter of Greenspan & Co. meeting Wednesday to talk about interest rates made for slow trading on Wall Street. In early-afternoon activity the Dow was up 19 points, to 7572; the Nasdaq was up 1, to 1592. In Tokyo, the Nikkei gained 1.1 percent, while Frankfurt's DAX closed down 0.6 percent and London's FTSE 100 fell 0.3 percent.
