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Dow Jones Averages

By The Associated Press

30 industrials 18054.32 down 4.37 or -0.02 percent

20 transportation 8870.27 down 34.41 or -0.39 percent

15 utilities 597.62 up 6.10 or 1.03 percent

65 stocks 6427.76 up 2.20 or 0.03 percent

Major Market Indexes

New York Stock Exchange unchanged

NYSE MKT Composite 2544.23 down 6.29

Nasdaq composite 5091.46 up 35.40

Standard and Poors 500 2116.05 up 3.12

Volume for unknown hour

Today Previous Session

NYSE

NYSE MKT

Nasdaq 597,352,289 547,128,583

NYSE – Market Did

Advanced 1493 2075

Declined 1477 994

Unchanged 130 143

Total 3100 3212

New highs 79 129

New lows 4 13

NYSE MKT – Market Did

Advanced 153 257

Declined 195 145

Unchanged 21 22

Total 369 424

New highs 9 11

New lows 3 3

Nasdaq – Market Did

Advanced 1220 1652

Declined 1314 1057

Unchanged 172 169

Total 2706 2878

New highs 100 140

New lows 19 43

Business Journal reporter to run for cancer as he battles it

By WTOP Staff
WASHINGTON - It is a race in more ways than one for one of our own at WTOP. And you can help. Tucker Echols, the Washington Business Journal's reporter normally heard on WTOP every morning, is battling diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a type of cancer that was discovered after he found a lump on his neck. "The very good news here is that it's very treatable," says Echols. "There is a chemotherapy regimen that has worked more than 10 years, almost 15 now, to give lots of folks like me, who catch it early, a good chance of survival." When the cancer is caught early, patients have an 80 percent chance of survival. But Echols, who is 51, has lost his hair to chemotherapy. And he has had a few difficult moments, like telling his two kids, who are 6 and 8. They asked him if he was going to die. "I said, 'No, I'm not going to die. That is the good news here.'" Now after consulting his oncologist, and despite the side effects that often accompany his treatment, Echols is preparing for the EagleMan Triathlon competition, a 70.3-mile race held in Cambridge, Md., June 9. "The key with chemotherapy is that you listen to your body and if you think you can do it, go ahead and do it," Echols says. Echols will run to raise money for three charities that are trying to cure cancer, and his goal is to raise $30,000. Click on the links below to donate: American Cancer Society; Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; Cure Starts Now Foundation. Follow @WTOP and @WTOPliving on Twitter.
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