Subject: Year-End Review of Markets and Finance:
Date: Published: 1/2/90 (30 lines)
Source:  Wall Street Journal.  Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    Year-End Review of Markets and Finance:
    Follies, Foibles and Fumbles
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    By William Power and Alexandra Peers

    It was the year The markets tried to get back to
 normal,but instead got bashed by a Friday-the-13th minicrash.
 As usual, the Journal kept a tab of all the year's more
 absurd events.  Some highlights:
    Great Moments in Security
    The New York Stock Exchange, which craves attention,
 sometimes gets too much.  In mid-September, five AIDS
 activists -- wearing fake badges reading "Bear Stearns" --
 managed to sneak onto an off-limits platform over the trading
 floor and just about drown out the opening bell with a noisy
 demonstration.
    The stunned Big Board immediately beefed up security.  But
 the activists got the last laugh after being arrested for
 charges that included "impersonating a trader."  Smirked one
 demonstrator who used to work on Wall Street:  "You could
 charge half the people down there with that."

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