Dow Dips a Bit After 3 Days of Highs
NEW YORK, March 28ÛÓBlue-chip stocks closed with small losses today1 as a sharp increase in bond interest rates snapped the Dow's three-day ; string qI record highs,	;</br></br>The Dow Jones industrial average fell 5.53 points to 4151.81, retreating from Monday's record 4157.34. The Dow.also set records on Thursday and Friday. In the broader market, declining issues slightly outnumbered advancing stocks on active trading of more than 320 million shares on the New York Stock Excliange,</br></br>Some analysts said that despite the decline, the stock market had not yet lost its momentum. "I don't tliink this market has turned at all," said William LeFevre, senior analyst at Ehrenkranta King Nussbaum. He said the Dow's decline was ÛÏmore of a rest than anything . that came out in the news,Û</br></br>Stocks took in stride news that the Federal Reserve left short-term interest rates unchanged during a meeting today of its policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee.</br></br>cation the central bank agreed with Wall Street's belief that the economy is slowing after seven rate increases since February 1994, analysts daid.