Scholastic Update articles from January 1998

Scholastic Update archives from January 1998

From Wall Street to your street.(stock market watched carefully because it shapes the world)
January 12, 1998... By the time the New York Stock Exchange opened on October 27, the American financial world was already bracing for the worst. Overnight, stock markets had tumbled in Asia and Europe. In New York, where the stocks of America's largest companies...

Wall Street for beginners.(guide to basic stock market definitions)
January 12, 1998... Stocks? The Dow? Interest rates? Do you really need to know thus stuff? If you live on this planet, you do. Without fail, at some point during the nightly news, the announcer says something like this: "On Wall Street today, the Dow gained...

How to read a stock table.(databank)(guidelines to reading the stock pages of a newspaper)
January 12, 1998... The stock pages in the newspaper may look like secret code. But you can learn a lot about stocks once you know how to read them. Here's an example using the listing for Microsoft, the giant computer software company. This listing is from a...

A day on the street.(broker's typical work day at the New York Stock Exchange followed)
January 12, 1998... Louise Jones is practically sprinting across the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. She has one customer who wants to buy 15,000 shares of an oil-drilling company, and another who wants 5,000 shares of a real-estate company. Her beeper is...

Teens with a Wall Street dream.(teens who invest in the stock market)
January 12, 1998... Think the stock market is only for hotshot investors? Guess again. Thousands of teens play the game everyday. Are you the kind of person who finds algebra a pain in the neck, hates to comparison shop, and can't keep track of after-school or...

On the brink.(tensions mount between Iraq and the U.S.)
January 12, 1998... Tensions between Iraq and U.S. are near the breaking point. Are two countries on a collision course war? Seven years ago this month, the United States and its allies went to war against the nation of Iraq. After 32 days of U.S. bombing of...

A new day for Presidents' Day.
January 12, 1998... Who should be honored on Presidents' Day--and why? Here's your chance to have a say. On February 17, millions of students and their parents will get a day off from school and work in honor of Presidents' Day. Most of you--along with happy...

The Spirit of St. Louis.(Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic Ocean)
January 12, 1998... When Charles Lindbergh flew a plane across the Atlantic, he became one of the first worldwide celebrities Charles Lindbergh banked his plane and peered down at New York City's Curtiss Field. After seven hours alone in the air, he could...