Stocks Decline; Health Insurers Weigh
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U.S. stocks were lower on Tuesday as  health insurers' shares fell on worry that a probe by New York  Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is widening and will hit the  entire industry.
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Stocks fell on Thursday, on a handful of disappointing earnings reports, including results from cable TV operator Comcast Corp , and on uncertainty over how badly the financial sector will be affected by the credit crisis.
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Wall Street fell slightly as investors tried to determine whether stocks, coming off their best week in four years, can continue to show signs of recovery.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday,  pressured by record oil prices, disappointing September sales  from retailers and a drop in drug stocks.
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Stocks fell for the second straight week as investors recoiled from a major insurance industry scandal, record high oil prices, a worsening trade deficit and a mixed bag of corporate earnings.
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U.S. stocks looked to open lower on  Thursday after drug company Merck & Co.MRK.N said it was  withdrawing a key drug, sending Dow Jones industrial futures  tumbling and dragging the broader market down as well.
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Stocks declined Monday, the last day of a volatile and difficult year on Wall Street, as investors awaited a report on home sales.
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U.S. stocks slipped on Wednesday as  Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, speaking before  Congress about the health of the economy, did little to quell  expectations for a rate hike later this month.
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U.S. stock futures weakened on  Wednesday, pointing to a lower market open, as rising oil  prices and a wide-reaching investigation into the insurance  industry soured the mood on Wall Street.
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U.S. stocks slipped on Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, speaking before Congress about the health of the economy, did little to quell expectations for a rate hike later this month.
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U.S. stocks slid on Thursday after New  York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer accused insurance broker  Marsh & McLennan Cos. MMC.N of fraud, and the fallout hit  insurers, including American International Group AIG.N.
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Stocks fell on Thursday as signs of   housing-market weakness and worries about the outlook for   interest rates made investors uneasy about prospects for   consumer spending and corporate profits.
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Stocks slipped on Monday as concern about the impact of the housing slump and credit squeeze hurt shares of financial companies.
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US stocks declined this week as disappointing sales forecasts from technology companies such as Xilinx Inc., Altera Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc.
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Shares in Asia fell on Monday, with Japan down around 2.5 percent and Hong Kong down more than 3 percent, as concerns over the health of the U.S. economy returned to haunt stock markets, sending investors to seek safe haven government bonds.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as concern about the extent of the housing market's slowdown unleashed a sell-off in shares of mortgage lenders and hurt shares of big banks like Citigroup Inc. .
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Stocks dropped in very heavy trading Friday as fresh concerns about pharmaceuticals, coming after Pfizer Inc. announced a troublesome health study of its Celebrex drug, overshadowed news of subdued growth in consumer prices and inflation.