Hanoi Spurs Record Wall St. Day
NEW YORK, April 3 ÛÓ Reports that North Vietnam might be willing to take its first steps toward opening peace talks with the U.S. caught Wall Street just as the stock market was opening today and touched off Û¢the greatest fury of buying the Street has ever seen.</br></br>With 19.29 million shares traded, the New York Stock Exchange broke through the two-day-old record of 17.73 million shares turned over on Monday.</br></br>Many stocks were delayed in opening as traders rushed to respond to the new peace moves. The Dow Jones industrial averaged jumped to a gain of 13.12 points after 90 minutes of trading, but profit-taking whittled the advance to 5.15 points and a closing mark of 869.11.</br></br>The ExchangeÛªs ticker ran as much as 45 minutes behind floor transactions, the biggest lag the high-speed system has ever suffered. Today's volume compared</br></br>Standard & PoorÛªs 500-stock composite was up 0.083 point to 93.47. The New York Stock Exchange Index rose 0.46 point to 51.84.