Subject: Bio-Technology Stock Jumps
Date: Published: 11/8/91 (28 lines)
Source:  Wall Street Journal.  Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    OTC Focus:
    Index Hits New High on Good News
    From Technology Firms, Bond Auction
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    By Dave Pettit
    Staff Reporter of the Wall Street Journal

    NEW YORK -- Encouraging news from several technology
 companies and a successful Treasury bond auction lifted
 over-the-counter stocks to an all-time high yesterday.

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    Bio-Technology General jumped 1 1/2 to 9 1/2 on 1.5
 million shares -- more than four times its average volume.
 The New York company said that its scientists discovered a
 new activity for a major AIDS-related enzyme.  The company said
 that potential products that could inhibit the newly
 discovered activity "might be expected to lower toxicity to
 (AIDS) patients."

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