TRISTATE MARKET SPOTLIGHT

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Gibson declines with overall market

Thursday, September 10, 1998

Gibson Greetings Inc. fell 8.6 percent on the Nasdaq market Wednesday.

Shares fell $1.75 to $18.50 on a volume of 13,800 shares, compared with 13-week average daily volume of 113,146.

Consumer cyclicals fell Wednesday as part of a general market downturn. Two small-cap indexes that include Gibson Greetings, a Cincinnati-based maker of greeting cards, declined.

The Russell 2000 closed down 9.24 to 352.69, and the Standard & Poor's Small Cap Consumer Cyclical Index closed down 3.17 to 124.89.

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