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Article: Chicago Tribune Bill Barnhart Column.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- March 18, 2004
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Byline: Bill Barnhart
Mar. 18--If Wall Street is going to go out like a lion in March, it had better wake up first.
On Wednesday, stocks continued to churn in moderate trading, leaving them almost unchanged for 2004.
The Dow Jones industrial average has had six winning days and seven losing days this month. After gaining more than 115 points Wednesday, it stands just 124 points below its 2003 close of 10,454.
Last week's terrorist bombings in Madrid sparked only a brief sell-off in U.S. stocks. But nothing seems to be inspiring the market, either.
After dropping less than 2 percent, the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index ...