Market summary not MIA, just moved

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Plenty of callers noticed what they thought was missing information on the front of Business starting last weekend. It wasn’t missing -- only moved -- but at least two dozen readers didn’t see the daily market summary that used to be in a box on the bottom of Page C1. Tom Moore of Monterey Park was one who initially didn’t see that almost the same information is there. It’s now in a ticker-tape-type line that runs under the date near the top of the page.

Markets editor Arthur Buckler sent back a note in response to readers’ inquiries to say, ‘I think the readers are talking about a design change that took effect Saturday. We used to run key daily market stats in a table at the bottom of C1 under the heading ‘Markets.’ We now run pretty much the same stats in a strip across the top of C1. Content-wise, the only change is we no longer include the value of the yen.’

What still runs in Business are figures for the Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq, gold, oil, Euro, U.S. T-bill and U.S. T-note.

Moore added that he thought a small box explaining the change would have been helpful. Editors agree: In the next few days, they plan to print a note to readers to let them know where the information can now be found.