Dow Up 23 Points in Light Trading
Wall Street stocks began the week on a positive note today, rising strongly on hopes of lower interest rates after two disappointing sessions, but volume was extremely light.</br></br>The Dow Jones industrial average finished up 22.94 points at 3376.03, and gainers outpaced losers by about 10 to 7.</br></br>The gains came with little gusto. Volume registered about 150 million shares, making it the third slowest day of 1992.</br></br>"People are moving to the sidelines to see which way Fed policy is going to go," said Bob Walberg of MMS International.</br></br>The Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee, which sets short-term interest rate policy, meets Tuesday. Some investors speculate a further easing of credit could be coming.