It was the second consecutive drop to the limit allowed for daily trading.

Pork belly futures gained the 2-cents-a-pound limit for daily trading on most months.

The July pork belly contract lost 0.60 cent after having advanced the 2-cents-a-pound limit for daily trading.

Average daily worldwide trading in financial instruments now may exceed $1 trillion.

In daily trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was off just 9.48 points to 7886.44.

The market opened with a surge and quickly rose the permitted 5-cent-a-pound limit for daily trading, on heavy speculative buying.

It was the second time this week that the Dow fell nearly 50 points in daily trading.

Cotton plunged the limit allowed for daily trading and oil prices fell sharply.

White House economists count themselves among those who had not expected the recent increase in long-term rates from daily trading.

In recent months foreigners have accounted for almost half of daily trading.