And the weekly decline in M-3 put its growth at a negative seven-tenths of 1 percent.

The weekly decline was the fourth in a row.

That cut the weekly decline to 111.88 points, or 4.2 percent.

It was the third weekly decline; gasoline stockpiles are now 5.4 percent below last year.

The stock market experienced its worst weekly decline since October 1989 this week.

It was down 0.6 percent for the week, its first weekly decline in six weeks.

It was also the Nasdaq's first weekly decline in the last six.

It was the second weekly decline after a string of gains.

It was the third straight weekly decline in M-2.

The 5 percent drop of the dollar against the yen is the biggest weekly decline in the 1990's.