Dow Suffers Largest Drop This Year

Stocks plunged in Thursday’s session with the Dow giving up nearly
450 points briefly before finishing down 311 points. This was the
worst one day drop of the year, which caused investors to move
money into bonds. The early selloff was fueled by new home sales
data that continued to be disappointing. New home sales fell 6.6%
last month, the largest percentage drop since sales fell by 12.7%
in January.

Crude oil futures for September delivery rose
1.2% to $74.95 a barrel on growing concern about falling supplies
in the U.S.  Gold futures for
August delivery fell 1.7% to $675.10 an ounce. To read today’s futures market recap,
click here.


Around Europe, Germany’s DAX index fell 2.4% to 7,508.96, France’s
CAC 40 dropped 2.8%, and Britain’s FTSE 100 index lost 3.2% to
6,251.20.

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Stocks in Motion

Apple’s
(
AAPL |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Sweet Third Quarter Pales Against Guarded Outlook
(full
story
). AAPL shares jumped 7%.

Exxon Mobil’s
(
XOM |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Q2 Earnings Slips On Lower Natural Gas
Realization (full
story
). XOM shares fell 5%.

Black & Decker
(
BDK |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Q2 Profit Declines On Housing Meltdown, High
Commodity Costs; Shares Down On Dismal Forecast (full
story
). BDK shares lost 7.5%.

Pulte Homes
(
PHM |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Slips To Q2 Loss, Revenue Drop 40% (full
story
). PHM shares dropped 3%.

QUALCOMM
(
QCOM |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Q3 Profit Up 24%; Sees Q4 EPS Above Analysts’
Estimate; Lifts FYO7 EPS Forecast Above Consensus (full
story
). QCOM shares closed flat.

Ford
(
F |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Turns To Profit In Q2, Revenues Up 6%, North American
Unit’s Loss Narrows (full
story
). F shares rose 2%.

For more stories as they happen, go to our
Breaking News section.

 


Market Snapshot

Dow

-311.50 13,473.57

NASDAQ

-48.83 2,599.34

S&P 500

-35.43 1,482.66

 

NYSE NASDAQ

Volume

4,927,516,000 3,376,362,000

Advances

318 500

Declines

2996 2632

Up Volume

376 381

Down Volume

2927 2847

New Highs

40 63

New Lows

732 369


Strongest/Weakest Sectors

Strongest Sectors

Weakest Sectors

CBOE Technology Index (TXX) Amex Airline Index (XAL)
Computer Hardware Index (HWI) Securities
Broker/Dealer Index (XBD)
Computer Technology Index (XCI) Gold Bugs Index (HUI)


 


Economic
News

Durable Goods Orders +1.4% vs
+2.0% consensus

Initial Claims 301K vs 310K consensus

New Home Sales 834K vs 900K consensus

Help Wanted Index 26 vs 27 consensus

Darren Wong

Associate Editor

darrenw@tradingmarkets.com

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