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October 25, 2012, Thursday
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THE steep losses stopped yesterday as the stock market turned calm, a day after one of its biggest sell-offs of the year. Indexes ended with slight losses after the Federal Reserve said the US economy still needs support.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 25.19 points at 13,077.34, a day after one of its worst drops this year.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 4.36 points to close at 1,408.75 while the Nasdaq composite index fell 8.76 points to 2,981.70.
"Today we're assessing the damage," said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott. "Everybody just got clobbered yesterday."
Lower corporate revenue and expectations for the rest of the year drove the Dow down 243 points Tuesday, its third-biggest drop this year. DuPont, 3M, UPS and Xerox all reported lower sales than a year ago.
"It seemed out of the blue, but what we were seeing was stock prices adjusting to corporate profitability," Luschini said.
The market flitted between small gains and losses for much of the day. Indexes started to fade after 2 p.m., after the Fed repeated its assessment that the US economic recovery remains modest at best.
At the end of its latest two-day meeting, the Fed said the economy is still expanding at just a "moderate pace" and that it needs time to see whether a new bond-buying effort launched in September will spur economic growth and new hiring.
Third-quarter earnings reports have mainly disappointed investors. The Dow has risen just one day in the last five, a gain of two points on Monday. It lost 205 on Friday following poor results from Microsoft, General Electric and McDonald's.
The latest batch of earnings reports wasn't as dire, and there was the occasional piece of encouraging news.
Facebook had its best day since its stock market debut in May. The company said late Tuesday that 14 percent of its advertising revenue came from mobile devices, allaying some investor concerns.
The social network's stock soared US$3.73 to US$23.23, a jump of 19 percent. Facebook has swung widely since its IPO at US$38, and has traded as low as US$17.55.
AT&T, which is part of the Dow average, said it added the fewest wireless customers since 2003, far behind Verizon Wireless. AT&T's results still managed to beat the estimates of financial analysts. AT&T slid 29 cents to US$34.71.
A measure of manufacturing in China, the world's second-largest economy after the United States, improved this month to a three-month high. China's white-hot economic growth has been slowing.
Homebuilder stocks gained after the Commerce Department reported that sales of new homes jumped last month to the highest level in more than two years. Toll Brothers rose 70 cents to US$35.25 and D.R. Horton rose 32 cents to US$21.41.
A drop in profits for Norfolk Southern hit other railroad stocks. Norfolk Southern reported a 27 percent slump in quarterly earnings late Tuesday, as falling coal prices led to lower revenue. Many utilities have favored using cheap natural gas instead of burning coal this year, pushing down coal prices and weighing on railroad operators.
Norfolk Southern fell US$4.92 to US$61.09. Union Pacific lost US$2.35 to US$120.87.
Prices for US government bonds inched lower, sending yields up. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note edged up to 1.79 percent from 1.76 percent late Tuesday.
Among other stocks in the news:
- Netflix dropped US$8.10, or 12 percent, to US$60.12. Late Tuesday, it slashed its prediction for how many US video-streaming subscribers it would add this year to 4.7 million to 5 million. It had predicted it would add as many as 7 million.
- Dow Chemical rose US$1.33 to US$29.88. The company announced a wide-ranging restructuring plan late Tuesday that includes cutting 2,400 jobs and closing 20 manufacturing facilities. The company cited slowing economic growth in Europe and elsewhere.
- Tempur-Pedic International sank 20 percent after the maker of memory-foam mattresses reported revenue that was well below the estimates of Wall Street analysts. The company also cut its estimates for full-year profits and revenue. Its stock plunged US$6.21 to US$25.66.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 25.19 points at 13,077.34, a day after one of its worst drops this year.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 4.36 points to close at 1,408.75 while the Nasdaq composite index fell 8.76 points to 2,981.70.
"Today we're assessing the damage," said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott. "Everybody just got clobbered yesterday."
Lower corporate revenue and expectations for the rest of the year drove the Dow down 243 points Tuesday, its third-biggest drop this year. DuPont, 3M, UPS and Xerox all reported lower sales than a year ago.
"It seemed out of the blue, but what we were seeing was stock prices adjusting to corporate profitability," Luschini said.
The market flitted between small gains and losses for much of the day. Indexes started to fade after 2 p.m., after the Fed repeated its assessment that the US economic recovery remains modest at best.
At the end of its latest two-day meeting, the Fed said the economy is still expanding at just a "moderate pace" and that it needs time to see whether a new bond-buying effort launched in September will spur economic growth and new hiring.
Third-quarter earnings reports have mainly disappointed investors. The Dow has risen just one day in the last five, a gain of two points on Monday. It lost 205 on Friday following poor results from Microsoft, General Electric and McDonald's.
The latest batch of earnings reports wasn't as dire, and there was the occasional piece of encouraging news.
Facebook had its best day since its stock market debut in May. The company said late Tuesday that 14 percent of its advertising revenue came from mobile devices, allaying some investor concerns.
The social network's stock soared US$3.73 to US$23.23, a jump of 19 percent. Facebook has swung widely since its IPO at US$38, and has traded as low as US$17.55.
AT&T, which is part of the Dow average, said it added the fewest wireless customers since 2003, far behind Verizon Wireless. AT&T's results still managed to beat the estimates of financial analysts. AT&T slid 29 cents to US$34.71.
A measure of manufacturing in China, the world's second-largest economy after the United States, improved this month to a three-month high. China's white-hot economic growth has been slowing.
Homebuilder stocks gained after the Commerce Department reported that sales of new homes jumped last month to the highest level in more than two years. Toll Brothers rose 70 cents to US$35.25 and D.R. Horton rose 32 cents to US$21.41.
A drop in profits for Norfolk Southern hit other railroad stocks. Norfolk Southern reported a 27 percent slump in quarterly earnings late Tuesday, as falling coal prices led to lower revenue. Many utilities have favored using cheap natural gas instead of burning coal this year, pushing down coal prices and weighing on railroad operators.
Norfolk Southern fell US$4.92 to US$61.09. Union Pacific lost US$2.35 to US$120.87.
Prices for US government bonds inched lower, sending yields up. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note edged up to 1.79 percent from 1.76 percent late Tuesday.
Among other stocks in the news:
- Netflix dropped US$8.10, or 12 percent, to US$60.12. Late Tuesday, it slashed its prediction for how many US video-streaming subscribers it would add this year to 4.7 million to 5 million. It had predicted it would add as many as 7 million.
- Dow Chemical rose US$1.33 to US$29.88. The company announced a wide-ranging restructuring plan late Tuesday that includes cutting 2,400 jobs and closing 20 manufacturing facilities. The company cited slowing economic growth in Europe and elsewhere.
- Tempur-Pedic International sank 20 percent after the maker of memory-foam mattresses reported revenue that was well below the estimates of Wall Street analysts. The company also cut its estimates for full-year profits and revenue. Its stock plunged US$6.21 to US$25.66.
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