Indexes Drop, Housing Starts Slip, CME Surges

US stock indexes dropped today on weaker than expected industrial production and Goldman Sach’s statement that banks need to raise $65 billion to cover expected losses. The DJIA gave back -108.78 to 12169.30, the Nasdaq dipped -17.05 to 2457.73 and the S&P 500 fell -9.21 ending the session at 1350.93.

CME Group
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– The world’s biggest futures exchange surged 5.27% or $22.10 to $441.51 after receiving Department of Justice approval to purchase the NYMEX.

Lennar
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– The homebuilder fell 3.65% or .58 cents to $15.33/share on the slipping housing start numbers.

Zions Bancorp
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slipped 10.29% or $3.79/share to $33.37 leading the S&P 500 lower after stating that additional non performing assets are likely per Bloomberg.

Chiquita Brands
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grew 5.41% or .90 cents/share to $17.55 as the Banana seller said its third-quarter loss would be roughly in line with last years.

Housing starts fell 5000 more than analysts estimated, gold added .60 cents to $886.90/oz, Oil fell .90 cents to $133.71 and the VIX climbed .86% to 21.13.

Market Snapshot

Dow

-108.78 12169.30

NASDAQ

-17.05 2457.73

S&P 500

-9.21 1350.93

Economic
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NY Empire State Index (Jun): Actual -8.7%, Consensus -2.0%

Net Foreign Purchases (Apr): Consensus 63.2B, Prior 79.6B

PPI (May): Consensus 1.0%, Prior 0.2%

Core PPI (May): Consensus 0.2%, Prior 0.4%

Housing Starts (May): Consensus 980K, Prior 1032K

Building Permits (May): Consensus 960K, Prior 978K

Capacity Utilization (May): Consensus 79.7%, Prior 79.7%

Industrial Production (May): Consensus 0.1%, Prior -0.7%

Crude Inventories (06/14): Consensus NA, Prior -4560K

Initial Claims (06/14): Consensus 375K, Prior 384K

Leading Indicators (May): Consensus 0.0%, Prior 0.1%

Philadelphia Fed (June): Consensus -10.0, Prior -15.6

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