Soaring Oil Prices Send Stocks Skidding
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NEW YORK - Soaring oil prices trumped positive earnings news Wednesday, sending stocks skidding as investors rushed to take profits on new fears that the market is in the midst of a commodities bubble.    Stronger than expected profits at chip bellwether Intel Corp...
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The latest jump in oil prices to over $55 a barrel pushed stocks down yesterday, with blue chips falling to their lowest levels this year.
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Disappointing earnings from Morgan Stanley (MWD) and oil prices topping $48 per barrel sent stocks sharply lower Wednesday as investors moved to protect their recent gains.
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Stocks slumped Monday, with the Dow industrials posting its biggest one-day percentage drop since July, as investors eyed higher oil prices, a weaker dollar and a cautious outlook from Wal-Mart and decided to head for the exits.
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U.S. stocks tumbled on Friday as  investors were jolted by a surge in oil prices and comments by  Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who gave a stark  reminder that interest rates were bound to go higher and warned  that appetite for the dollar would dwindle.
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U.S. stocks skidded on Monday as resurgent economic worries and a jump in oil prices outweighed excitement about a bid for Texas power company TXU Corp. , which would be the largest private-equity buyout ever.
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U.S. stocks fell sharply on Friday as investors were jolted by a more than &#36;2 increase in oil prices, while Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave a stark reminder that interest rates were bound to go higher and warned the appetite for the dollar would dwindle.
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Stocks fell on Monday as a rise in oil  prices to nearly $50 a barrel clouded the corporate profit  outlook, and a brokerage downgrade hurt semiconductor shares.
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U.S. stocks jumped on Wednesday as oil  prices, which have held investor enthusiasm for stocks in check  for months, fell sharply after a higher-than-expected crude  build last week.
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U.S. stocks tumbled on Thursday as oil  prices marched above $48 a barrel, but Google Inc. GOOG.O  provided some excitement after shares of the Internet search  company surged on their debut.
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Oil prices tumbled nearly $3 a barrel Wednesday after a report showing a bigger jump in crude oil inventories than traders and analysts had expected.
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U.S. stocks slid sharply on Friday, after bellwether stocks such as Caterpillar and Google posted disappointing earnings.
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NEW YORK - Stocks tumbled Wednesday as investors saw a surge in oil prices and disappointing earnings from Morgan Stanley as a reason to collect profits from gains of the last month. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped nearly 130 points, and all three major indexes saw their biggest losses since early August...
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Rising oil prices and continued weakness in the US dollar pushed stocks lower Monday as investors grew increasingly uneasy about the economy.
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U.S. stocks tumbled on Thursday after  oil spiked to a record and New York Attorney General Eliot  Spitzer leveled fraud charges at the insurance industry,  dragging Dow component American International Group Inc.  AIG.N down 10 percent.
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Stocks fell on Thursday, weighed down  by climbing oil prices and a government report showing an  unexpected rise in weekly jobless claims.
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With the stock market looking to start a fourth week of gains, another drop in oil prices gave aid to some stocks Monday but pulled the rug out from under others.