Stocks Drop on Oil Prices, Earnings
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NEW YORK - Investors sent stocks lower Tuesday as oil prices crossed another milestone, $54 per barrel. Earnings reports from heavyweights Johnson & Johnson and Merrill Lynch & Co...
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Stocks tanked Friday as worries about more problems in the bank sector, slower corporate earnings growth, the weak dollar, and record-high oil prices all came to a head.
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Stocks fell sharply  on Wednesday  after oil prices jumped more than a dollar to over $48 a barrel  and investment bank Morgan Stanley MWD.N and brokerage Bear  Stearns Cos. Inc. BSC.N reported declines in quarterly  profits.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as investors locked in profits ahead of jobs data on Friday that could show further weakening in the economy and hurt corporate earnings.
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Stocks declined on Monday as oil  prices spiked higher and companies like consumer goods giant  Colgate-Palmolive warned on earnings, stirring investor worry  about corporate profits.
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U.S. stocks declined on Thursday, although a jump in oil prices lifted energy shares and helped the indexes trim losses  triggered by worries about banks' bad mortgage debt and a warning from home builder Toll Brothers .
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US stocks fell on Tuesday as a drop in oil prices pulled down shares of energy companies and health-care giant Johnson &amp; Johnson (JNJ.
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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 135 points, and all three major indexes saw their biggest losses since early August...
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The Dow industrials and S&P 500 fell on Monday as a drop in oil prices weighed on shares of energy companies including Exxon Mobil Corp .
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NEW YORK - A slowdown in economic growth and oil prices' advance to near record highs renewed Wall Street's fears of disappointing third-quarter earnings Thursday and pushed stocks mostly lower. Only the Nasdaq composite index managed a minimal gain...
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Disappointing earnings from Morgan Stanley and a new spike in oil prices sent stocks lower in early trading Wednesday as investors&#39; worries over third-quarter earnings increased.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as  investor worries about high energy costs hurting corporate  profits kept indexes lower after oil prices broke through $48 a  barrel.
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U.S. stocks fell on Monday as oil  prices held near $55 a barrel and Dow component 3M Co. MMM.N  posted results slightly below Wall Street estimates.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as investors locked in profits ahead of Friday's jobs data that could show further weakening in the economy and possibly send equity markets lower.
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NEW YORK - Disappointing earnings from Morgan Stanley and a new spike in oil prices sent stocks lower in early trading Wednesday as investors' worries over third-quarter earnings increased.    In the first hour of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 87.31, or 0.8 percent, to 10,157.62...
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U.S. blue-chip stocks fell on Thursday  as disappointing earnings from companies including Dow  component Caterpillar and higher oil prices dampened the mood  on Wall Street after two days of advances.
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Stocks fell sharply on Wednesday after  oil prices climbed above $48 a barrel and investment bank  Morgan Stanley MWD.N reported a decline in quarterly profit,  stirring concern about corporate earnings.