News stories from Monday November 29, 1976

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

The big 3 steel producers -- United States Steel, Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel -- decided to go along with the 6 percent increase on sheet and strip steel announced by six other leading producers. The Aluminum Company of America also announced that it would increase prices by about 10.2 percent on sheet products used for beer, soft drink and other containers. Alcoa's increase will become effective Jan. 2, while the increase on steel is expected to become effective tomorrow. President-elect Carter was said to be "very concerned" about the inflationary effect of the steel price increases. [New York Times] President-elect Carter's press secretary said that Mr. Carter was near a decision on measures that would prevent or discourage appointees in the Carter administration from later joining business concerns that do "substantial business" with the government agencies. Mr. Carter met with advisers to discuss the standards and requirements expected of people asked to serve in his administration. [New York Times] Production will be increased in Detroit despite sluggish sales since the 1977 automobile models were introduced in the fall. Sharp increases in production are planned in December and the first quarter of next year. [New York Times] Stock prices declined in heavier trading following the announcement of price increases by the major steel producers. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 6.57 points at 950.05, its low for the day. Some short-term interest rates continued to decline and Treasury bills were auctioned at their lowest rates in more than four years. [New York Times] Former President Richard Nixon's challenge to the 1974 statute that gave the government control over his presidential papers and recordings will be heard by the Supreme Court. Mr. Nixon lost the first round of his challenge last January, when a lower federal court unanimously upheld the statute as constitutional. The Ford administration, through the Justice Department, had asked the Supreme Court Justices to deny Mr. Nixon a hearing and to affirm the lower court's decision without arguments. [New York Times] The South Korean Central Intelligence Agency's chief of operations in Washington and his aides have been recalled in an attempt to stifle a Washington inquiry, according to a Korean source close to the Seoul government. The source said that agency's American operation has been reorganized under the command of President Park Chung Hee's son-in-law. [New York Times] The Philadelphia Stock Exchange's proposed new regulation that would permit specialists to trade in listed options on securities in which they trade has been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The approval is significant because it recognizes that the potential for abuse is outweighed by pro-competitive factors. Three other exchanges have made the proposal and have applied for approval. [New York Times] Harry de la Roche Jr. was ordered held pending psychiatric examination after being charged in a Bergen County court with the murder of his father, mother and two younger brothers in Montvale, N.J. Investigators are looking into reports that the 18-year-old student at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., was desperately unhappy there but unable to persuade his parents to let him leave. [New York Times] Representative Bella Abzug, Democrat of New York City, is being considered for a top post in the Carter administration, a Carter aide told Mayor Beame. It was also learned that Mr. Beame and Governor Carey had held patronage discussions with Mr. Carter's aides in an effort to place New Yorkers in key posts in the Carter administration. "The mayor is backing Bella," one of Mr. Beame's advisers said. [New York Times] Matthew Feldman, president of the New Jersey state Senate, pleaded guilty to charges that he paid $6,400 in bribes in an attempt to make his liquor distribution company the exclusive supplier of a New Jersey restaurant chain. Mr. Feldman, 57, is a Democrat from Teaneck. He faces fines, but not a prison sentence. [New York Times] Mozambique's new Marxist government is preparing for an expanded war with Rhodesia despite continuing efforts in Geneva to bring about a settlement. At the ports of Maputo and Beira heavy shipments of Soviet arms are being delivered for use by guerrillas operating from bases along the Rhodesian border. Intervention efforts by the United States have been denounced and the criticism of America has been equaled only by general praise of the Soviet Union and its allies. [New York Times] Latin America's universities are in political and academic eclipse. One of their problems is that their academic standings have been eroded under the burden of huge student enrollments completely out of proportion to physical facilities, teaching staff and financial resources. State interference -- to which the universities had traditionally been immune -- is encroaching under authoritarian governments. [New York Times]

Stock Market Report

Dow Jones Industrial Average: 950.05 (-6.57, -0.69%)
S&P Composite: 102.44 (-0.71, -0.69%)
Arms Index: 1.48

	Issues	Volume*
Advances	636	5.52
Declines	813	10.41
Unchanged	442	2.82
Total Volume		18.75

* in millions of shares

Arms Index is the ratio of volume per declining issue to volume per advancing issue; a figure below 1.0 is bullish.

Market Index Trends
Date	DJIA	S&P	Volume*
November 26, 1976	956.62	103.15	15.00
November 24, 1976	950.96	102.41	20.42
November 23, 1976	949.30	101.96	19.09
November 22, 1976	955.87	102.59	20.93
November 19, 1976	948.80	101.92	24.55
November 18, 1976	950.13	101.89	24.00
November 17, 1976	938.08	100.61	19.90
November 16, 1976	935.34	100.04	21.02
November 15, 1976	935.42	99.90	16.71
November 12, 1976	927.69	99.24	15.55