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Description: Here's an edition of The Wall Street Journal Business Report on WGN Channel 9, anchored by longtime WGN voiceover announcer, Floyd Brown. (pretty cool to see him here in his prime!) Includes:

Opening titles and sponsor billboard for Amtrak ("America's Getting Into Training - Training the Amtrak Way") (voiceover by Merri Dee)

Floyd Brown reading the following business items:

- A revision to a measurement of the Consumer Price Index, with a change in the home mortgage component starting in 1983; this would mean slower growth in people's paychecks

- Sterling Drug touting its new Inocor drug as "a major advance in the battle against heart disease"

- U.S. Steel reporting 600% surge in third-quarter earnings from prior year

- Condos found to comprise more than half the nation's multi-family housing market for the first time in the second quarter

Commercial: Amtrak - contrasting a driver on the road with an Amtrak passenger (voiceover by Peter Thomas) (ending jingle sung by Jake Holmes)

More business items:

- Dollar ends New York trading lower

- Gold closes at $430.30/ounce (up $5.60)

- Silver closes at $9.10/ounce (up $0.21)

- Dow Jones Industrial index closes at 838.38 (up 7.42) - Average share up $0.27 - Volume 53,000,000 shares (those were the days) - 1,000 stocks up, 481 down

End of report - (C) 1981 Dow Jones Incorporated.

Station ID with pre-1977 style WGN 9 logo (voiceover by Merri Dee)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 27th 1981.