Costlier Oil Takes a Toll on the Dow
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Higher oil prices weighed on investors and Treasuries rallied amid concerns about trouble among companies that offer loans to customers with spotty credit.
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The blue-chip Dow Jones average fell  on Thursday after drug maker Merck & Co., a member of the Dow,  recalled its widely sold Vioxx painkiller and oil prices  hovered around $50 a barrel.
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NEW YORK Higher oil prices and lowered profit forecasts weakened stocks Monday, with investors hesitant to buy in ahead of an interest rate-setting meeting of the Federal Reserve on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK - A slowdown in economic growth and oil prices hovering around $48 per barrel renewed Wall Street's fears of disappointing third-quarter earnings Thursday and kept stocks mixed.    In late morning trading, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 49.70, or 0.5 percent, to 10,059.48, one day after the index lost more than 135 points...
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Stocks closed mostly lower yesterday as record oil prices and economic data showing slower-than-expected growth last month weighed on the markets.
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Blue chips closed lower after Wall Street fell back in reaction to stronger crude prices.
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Disappointing retail sales and oil prices that threatened to top $53 per barrel sent stocks lower Thursday as investors worried that rising energy costs could further hamper consumer spending.
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Stocks declined on Monday, as record crude oil prices triggered fresh worry that energy costs will erode corporate profits and consumer demand.
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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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Troubles buffeting the U.S. mortgage market could get worse as resurgent crude oil prices squeeze the finances of already hard-pressed borrowers, analysts say, and that could spell more trouble for Wall Street.
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U.S. blue chips were down on Wednesday  on a sharp rise in oil prices after oil inventories rose less  than expected and a few Dow components disappointed investors  with their earnings and outlooks.
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NEW YORK - Disappointing retail sales and oil prices that threatened to top $53 per barrel sent stocks lower Thursday as investors worried that rising energy costs could further hamper consumer spending.    With a number of companies having already warned that energy costs would squeeze third-quarter profits, investors saw the September retail sales report as reason to worry that a sustained rise in oil prices could harm fourth-quarter results as well...
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Stocks fell on Tuesday as shares of  major oil companies tumbled after the price of crude fell more  than a $1 a barrel to a 3-month low.
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Wall Street was set to open slightly lower on Wednesday as investors eye the damage to corporate earnings from stubbornly high oil prices with scorecards from key companies rolling in.
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Stocks are lower as investors hold their breath ahead of weekly data on oil inventories due out later in the morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 17 points in today&#39;s early going.
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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 fell on Monday, with the Dow  slipping briefly below 10,000 as a further rise in oil prices  clouded the corporate profit outlook, and a brokerage downgrade  hurt semiconductor shares.