BRIEFCASE 'SHARK TALE' FAILS TO SET OCT. RECORD.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services The animated ``Shark Tale,'' featuring the voice of Will Smith as an undersea small fry who tells a big fish story, put the bite on the box office with a $47.6 million debut. ``Shark Tale'' revenues came in $1.5 million below initial projections Sunday by distributor DreamWorks, which had estimated the movie's opening weekend at $49.1 million. That would have been a record October opening. The final numbers Monday put ``Shark Tale'' just behind the $48.1 million debut of last year's ``Scary scar·y adj. scar·i·er, scar·i·est 1. Causing fright or alarm. 2. Easily scared; very timid. scar Movie 3,'' which remains the October box-office champion. Schwab cutting its online prices SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden - Slumping stock broker Charles Schwab Charles Schwab can refer to:
the skin-covered object which runs on a monorail on a Greyhound racing track and which the dogs are schooled to chase. The lure must be kept 30 to 40 ft ahead of the leading dog so that the field is stretched out. back bargain-minded investors alienated al·ien·ate tr.v. al·ien·at·ed, al·ien·at·ing, al·ien·ates 1. To cause to become unfriendly or hostile; estrange: alienate a friend; alienate potential supporters by taking extreme positions. by the higher fees the company has imposed in recent years. Looking to regain a competitive edge, Schwab's basic commission for online stock trades of up to 1,000 shares will fall 33 percent, from $29.95 to $19.95, effective Nov. 1. Monday's rates on T-bills mixed WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities were mixed in Monday's auction. The Treasury Department sold $19 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.685 percent, down from 1.710 percent last week. An additional $17 billion was sold in six-month bills at a rate of 1.990 percent, up from 1.950 percent last week. In a separate report, the Federal Reserve said Monday that the average yield for one-year Treasury bills, the most popular index for making changes in adjustable rate mortgages This article is about the US mortgage type. For an international perspective, see Variable rate mortgage. An adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) is a mortgage loan where the interest rate on the note is periodically adjusted based on an index. , rose to 2.20 percent last week from 2.14 percent the previous week. |
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