Numbers Music
Every day the show has a segment where they "do the numbers," that is, the host tells the ending positions of the three major United States stock market indexes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite. If all three have values higher at the end of the day than they did at the market's open that morning, the music played during the segment is "We're in the Money". At times in the past, programmers have played a brief tape of a cheering crowd when the market rises rapidly. When all three close below their opening positions, "Stormy Weather" is played. Often the indexes have little change from their opening positions or even differ with some up and others down; in this case, "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" serves as the background music for the segment. During the 1990s the "Marketplace" theme music incorporated the advertising jingle from its then-major underwriter, General Electric.
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Famous quotes containing the words numbers and/or music:
“I had a feeling that out there, there were very poor people who didn’t have enough to eat. But they wore wonderfully colored rags and did musical numbers up and down the streets together.”
—Jill Robinson (b. 1936)
“Let us describe the education of our men.... What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)