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THE REAL MOST ACTIVE Dow, S&P 500 Lose Ground In Higher Volume.(MAKING MONEY)

Investor's Business Daily

| October 23, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Investor's Business Daily, Inc. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: JONAH KERI

NYSE stocks sold off in higher volume Wednesday, marking a distribution day. The Dow and S&P 500 each dropped 1.5%. The small-cap S&P 600 shed 1.7%.

LeapFrog Enterprises plummeted 11.65, or 25%, to 34.89. A total of 15 million shares changed hands vs. its average daily volume of about 600,000.

After Tuesday's close, the maker of educational software posted third-quarter earnings of 55 cents a share, well below First Call's consensus estimate of 61 cents. Sales also missed guidance.

The stock, which broke out in mid-August, wiped out nearly its entire two-month advance in one day of trading.

Also imploding was …

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