Blue-chip downgrades, higher oil prices pressure stocks
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By George Chamberlin , Daily Transcript Financial Correspondent. Stocks were mixed Monday as investors reacted to modestly higher oil prices.
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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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Blue chips ended lower yesterday as a drop in oil prices hit energy shares and buyers took profits after a series of record-high closes.
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U.S. blue-chip stocks fell on  Wednesday after Honeywell International Inc. and J.P. Morgan  Chase & Co. disappointed investors with quarterly reports, and  high oil prices rekindled worries about the impact on profit  margins.
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Blue-chip stocks fell on Tuesday and  the Nasdaq composite index pared earlier gains as China said it  raised a stamp duty on stock trades in Chinese markets and a  sharp drop in oil prices hurt shares of energy companies.
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Blue-chip stocks opened slightly lower  on Thursday, with rising energy prices feeding investor  concerns, but the Nasdaq index opened higher after software  company Cognos Inc. COGN.O posted better-than-expected  earnings.
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U.S. blue-chip stocks ended barely  higher on Friday as a spike in oil prices to near-record levels  pared earlier gains and renewed concerns about the effect of  high energy prices on consumer spending and corporate profits.
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Stocks were trading lower on Wednesday, nudged downward by heavily-weighted energy shares which fell in-line with crude oil futures.
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Oil supply concerns and broker downgrades of blue-chip companies left stocks mixed yesterday, raising doubts that Wall Street&#39;s year-end rally would continue.
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As crude oil prices move toward $50 a barrel, many stocks tied to oil are lower in Monday trading. Airline stocks included in the downward trend also were hurt by JP Morgan&#39;s downgrade of JetBlue Airways Monday morning.
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Stocks declined on Monday, pressured by losses in shares of energy companies after a nearly 4 percent drop in oil prices.
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U.S. blue-chip stocks fell  on  Thursday to nearly a five-week low as crude oil flirted with  last month's record high and a key gauge of future economic  activity fell for a third straight month.
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The blue-chip Dow average fell to a  new intraday low for the year on Friday as oil prices climbed  to another record and Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O dragged on  stocks after the software maker's revenue forecast lagged  analysts' expectations.
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U.S. blue-chip stocks fell on Thursday  and crude oil prices touched $49 a barrel as traders saw a  possible oil loan from U.S. government reserves as too small to  make up for supply disruptions caused by Hurricane Ivan.
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Stocks moved lower on Thursday as a  brokerage downgrade on the oil sector, including Exxon Mobil  Corp. XOM.N, weighed on the market.
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US blue-chip stocks fell on Thursday to nearly a five-week low as crude oil touched $49 a barrel, close to the record set last month, and a key gauge of future economic activity fell for a third straight month.
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U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday, with crude oil extending a decline and weighing on energy stocks, while a chip maker's earnings warning hurt the tech sector.