Stocks drop; Dow off more than 100 points
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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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U.S. stocks dropped on Thursday, led lower by financial shares after an analyst warned of larger mortgage-related write-offs, while an assassination of Pakistan's' opposition leader Benazir Bhutto sparked fears of global unrest.
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The Dow industrials briefly fell into negative territory, led down by banks, in midday trading on Friday. Stocks sharply pared gains earlier in the day after weaker-than-expected data on new home sales.
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U.S. stocks tumbled on Friday, battered by disappointing results from such bellwethers as Caterpillar and Google, and more signals that fallout from the risky subprime mortgage market may spread.
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U.S. stocks slipped on Friday on signs   the economy may be slowing more sharply than previously   thought, threatening corporate profits, including those of   large industrial companies.
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Stocks dropped 1 percent on Friday as investors took profits after two days of sharp gains and before the weekend.
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Wall Street extended its decline in early trading today, falling on nagging concerns about mortgage defaults and also following the lead of stock markets that tumbled abroad. The Dow fell 4.2 percent last week including Tuesday's 416-point plunge, fell about 62 points to the 12,051 level in the opening minutes of trading.
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U.S. stocks finished sharply lower on Wednesday, the first trading day of 2008, after data showed a surprise contraction in manufacturing and oil surged to $100 a barrel, heightening concerns about the economy's outlook.
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The Dow industrial average turned lower on Tuesday, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were little changed as concerns about fallout from the housing slump on the economy's outlook cut short an earlier bounce.
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U.S. stocks tumbled on Tuesday, pushing the benchmark S&P 500 index down in its biggest one-day drop in almost four years, as a sharp sell-off in China's stock market and weak U.S. data fanned concerns about global economic growth.
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U.S. stocks dropped sharply on Tuesday, pushing the Dow down more than 200 points in its second-biggest drop of the year, as mounting losses in the subprime mortgage sector and weak retail sales caused investors to sell riskier assets.
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U.S. stocks were knocked lower on  Monday, with the Dow dipping briefly below 10,000, as record  high oil prices threatened to hurt corporate profits and a  brokerage downgrade hit semiconductor shares.
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Stocks dropped on Friday, with the Dow and S&P down 1 percent, as investors locked in profits after two days of sharp gains, with financial and defensive sectors among those leading declines.
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U.S. stocks fell on Monday, with the  blue-chip Dow hitting a new low for the year, as oil prices set  new records above $55 a barrel and the dollar fell to within a  cent of record lows against the euro.
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The Dow was down more than 200 points at one point today as earnings reports from Wachovia and Caterpillar disappointed investors.
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U.S. stocks fell on Friday, with the Dow knocked off its 14,000-point perch and the Nasdaq composite index down more than 1 percent after bellwether stocks Caterpillar Inc.  and Google Inc  posted disappointing earnings.
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U.S. stocks dropped on Thursday, led by financial shares' losses after an analyst warned of larger write-offs in the sector, while an assassination in Pakistan sparked fears of global instability.