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 PROGRAM TRADING is being curbed by more securities firms, 
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further roiling the stock market.
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Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer joined PaineWebber in suspending stock-index arbitrage trading for their own accounts.
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 Still, stock-index funds are expected to continue launching big programs through the market.
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 Several Big Board firms are organizing 
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to complain about program trading and the exchange's role in it.
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 The effort is being led by Contel.
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 Personal spending rose 0.2% in September, the smallest gain in a year.
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 The slowdown raises questions about the economy's strength 
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because spending fueled much of the third-quarter GNP growth.
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 Meanwhile, personal income edged up 0.3%.
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 Factory owners are buying new machinery at a healthy rate this fall, 
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machine-tool makers say.
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 But weak car sales raise questions about future demand from the auto sector.
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 Southern's Gulf Power unit may plead guilty this week to charges 
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it illegally steered company money to politicians through third parties.
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 The tentative pact would resolve part of a broad investigation of the Atlanta-based company in the past year.
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 LIN Broadcasting and BellSouth sweetened their plan 
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to merge cellular phone operations, 
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offering LIN holders a special $42-a-share payout.
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 But the new pact will force huge debt on the new firm 
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and could still fail to thwart rival suitor McCaw Cellular.
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 Unisys posted a $648.2 million loss for the third quarter 
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as it moved quickly to take write-offs for various problems and prepare for a turnaround.
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 RJR Nabisco agreed to sell three candy businesses to Nestle for $370 million.
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 The accord helps RJR pay off debt and boosts Nestle's 7% share of the U.S. candy market to 12%.
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 GM and Ford are expected to go head to head in the markets 
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to buy up rival 15% stakes in Jaguar.
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 GM confirmed 
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it received U.S. antitrust clearance to
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 boost its holding.
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 Sansui Electric agreed to sell a 51% stake to Polly Peck of Britain for $110 million. 
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the accord doesn't suggest 
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Japan is opening up to more foreign takeovers.
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 Kellogg suspended work on a $1 billion cereal plant, 
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indicating a pessimistic outlook by the cereal maker, 
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which has been losing market share. 
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 Insurers could see claims totaling nearly $1 billion from the San Francisco earthquake, far less than the $4 billion from Hurricane Hugo.
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 Nashua strengthened its poison-pill plan 
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after announcing 
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a Dutch firm is seeking to buy up to 25% of the New Hampshire copier company.
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 Mobil is cutting back its U.S. oil and gas exploration and production group by up to 15% as part of a restructuring of the business.
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Volume 170,330,000 shares.
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 Dow Jones industrials 2596.72, off 17.01; transportation 1190.43, off 14.76; utilities 215.86, up 0.19.
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Shearson Lehman Hutton Treasury index 3406.31, off 
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Dow Jones futures index 129.49, up 0.27; spot index 130.80, off 0.24. 
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141.65 yen, off 0.45; 1.8300 marks, off 0.0100. 
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