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I'm Paul Kangas. In an exclusive interview on the Nightly Business Report today, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan Blinder said the economy is showing fewer signs of slowing after five interest rate increases than he would have expected.
He said the Fed is watching and waiting. His comments, along with a weaker dollar, helped push bonds and stocks down, but the markets recovered most of their losses late in the day.
The Dow Industrial Average closing down only four and three-quarter points. Both the Nasdaq Composite and the American Stock Exchange Index posted modest losses.
On the corporate front, Sprint Corporation said it's joining three large cable TV firms, namely Telecommunications Inc., Comcast, and Cox Enterprises, to offer local phone services and set up a national wireless communications network.
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Hello, I'm Hugh Emhoff, your host for Spokane This Week. Speaker of the House Tom Foley is running the race of his political career.
The challenge from Republican George Nethercutt has drawn international attention, and here in the Fifth District, recent polls have the pair running extremely close.
Have you decided how you'll vote? Please join me for a special edition of Spokane This Week when we'll be talking to the candidates in depth about the issues in this very important Congressional race.
That's Spokane This Week, Friday at 8.30 here on KSPS Public TV.