Stocks Fall Hard, X Climbs, Analysts Hurt Cisco

U.S. stock indexes fell hard today on renewed economic worries and second quarter earning concerns. The DJIA fell -236.77 points to 11147.44, the Nasdaq gave back -59.55 points ending at 2234.89 and the S&P 500 lost -29.01 points to 1244.69.

US Steel
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surged 5.22% or $7.86 to $158.41/share on increasing spot steel prices, high global demand and the capacity to control iron/coal costs.

Cisco
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suffered from analyst worries about its second quarter earnings, falling 5.77% or $1.32 to $21.56/share.

Intel
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led the DJIA lower losing 5.26% or $1.10 to $19.82/share due to competitive concerns and negative earning speculation.

New York Times
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slipped 6.97% or $1.05 to $14.01/share on lowered earning estimates and fears of dividend cutting.

The VIX jumped 8.98% to 25.23, Gold climbed $5.30 to $928.60/oz, and oil slipped .50 cents to $135.54 in late day NYMEX trade.

Market Snapshot

Dow

-236.77 11147.44

NASDAQ

-59.55 2234.89

S&P 500

-29.01 1244.69

Economic
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Pending Home Sales (May): Consensus -2.8%, Consensus 6.3%

Wholesale Inventories (May): Consensus 0.6%, Prior 1.3%

Consumer Credit (May): Consensus $7.0B, Prior $8.9B

Crude Inventories (07/05): Consensus NA, Prior -1982K

Initial Claims (07/05): Consensus 395K, Prior 404K

Export Prices ex-ag (Jun): Consensus NA, Prior 0.4%

Import Prices ex-oil (Jun): Consensus NA, Prior 0.5%

Trade Balance (May): Consensus -$62.2B, Prior -$60.9B

Mich Sentiment-Prel (Jul): Consensus 55.5, Prior 56.4

Treasury Budget (Jun): Consensus $33.0B, Prior $27.5B