Dell Dumped, Stocks Sink, Trichet’s Trepidation

  • November 20, 2009
  • David Goodboy

A surprisingly lower earnings report from computer stalwart Dell triggered selling across tech names. Euro chief, Jean Claude Trichet, made insinuations toward removing government credit aid, sending waves of trepidation through the world’s economies. Despite a strong late day bargain hunter fueled surge, stocks closed in negative territory for the session. The DJIA gave back -14.28 to 10318.16, the Nasdaq dropped -11.92 to 2146.04, and the S&P 00 gave back -3.52 to 1091.38.

Dell
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JM Smucker
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Merck
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DR Horton
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Oil fell 74 cents to $76.72, gold added $6.60 to $1149.00 and the fear index VIX fell 1.94% to 22.190.

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Market Snapshot

Dow

 -14.28 10318.16

NASDAQ

 -11.92 2146.04

S&P 500

 -3.52 1091.38

Economic
News

Retail Sales (Oct): Consensus: 0.9%, Prior: -1.5%, Revise From: -1.5%

Retail Sales ex-auto (Oct): Consensus: 0.4%, Prior: 0.4%, Revise From: 0.5%

Empire Manufacturing (Nov): Consensus: 30.00, Prior: 34.57

Business Inventories (Sep): Consensus: -0.7%, Prior: -1.6%, Revise From: -1.5%

Core PPI (Oct): Consensus: 0.1%, Prior: -0.1%

PPI (Oct): Consensus: 0.5%, Prior: -0.6%

Net Long-Term TIC Flows (Sep): Consensus: $35.0B, Prior: $28.6B

Capacity Utilization (Oct): Consensus: 70.8%, Prior: 70.5%

Industrial Production (Oct): Consensus: 0.4%, Prior: 0.7%

Housing Starts (Oct): Consensus: 600K, Prior: 590K

Building Permits (Oct): Consensus: 580K, Prior: 573K

CPI (Oct): Consensus: 0.2%, Prior: 0.2%

Core CPI (Oct): Consensus: 0.1%, Prior: 0.2%

Crude Inventories (11/13): Consensus: NA, Prior: 1.76M

Initial Claims (11/14): Consensus: 504K, Prior: 502K

Continuing Claims (11/13): Consensus: 5600K, Prior: 5631K

Leading Indicators (Oct): Consensus: 0.4%, Prior: 1.0%

Philadelphia Fed (Nov): Consensus: 12.0, Prior: 11.5