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Wednesday, April 10, 1996
The Daily Dow

(FOOL GLOBAL WIRE)
by Robert Sheard

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Apr. 10): A last-hour sell-off turned a pretty boring day into a ticket to the Nervous Nelly Derby today. With commodity prices rising, the bond market slumped on inflation fears, dragging the stock market down with it. The Dow shed nearly 80 points, most of it in the last few minutes of the session. The Foolish Four held up relatively well, though, losing less than half the market's decline for the day.

Should you worry about it? Not for more than 30 seconds or so. Peter Lynch would give you about 2 minutes a year to waste (er. . . spend) on predicting the econo