The New York Stock Exchange is more active than ever beforedaily volume is running 12% above last year's averageand each day more than 70,000 investors phone their brokers to ask how their stocks are doing. This week Exchange President Keith Funston will introduce a computerized system to provide quick answers.
With the new IBM Market Data System, the process will be this: when an .investor calls in to ask for a stock quote, the broker can press a button on the base of his telephone and automatically connect into a computer at the exchange. He will then dial a four-digit...
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