Blue Chips End Lower, Earnings Disappoint
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U.S. blue-chip stocks ended lower on  Wednesday as Honeywell International Inc. HON.N and J.P.  Morgan Chase & Co. JPM.N disappointed investors with  quarterly reports, while oil prices lurching back to $55 a  barrel rekindled worries about corporate energy costs.
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U.S. blue chips ended lower on Monday  after a disappointing sales forecast from the world's biggest  retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N, overshadowed a two-day  pullback in oil prices.
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U.S. technology shares fell and blue-chip stocks pared gains on Thursday, with shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd.  down after brokerage downgrades of the stock.
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The blue-chip Dow average ended  slightly lower, while the tech-driven Nasdaq inched higher on  Tuesday as investors waited for hints on Wednesday from the  Federal Reserve about the pace of interest-rate increases.
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Blue chips closed lower, with the banking reporting season off to a bad start as mid-cap Bradford & Bingley's shares lost 23 percent after its results, and the Bank of England's hawkish inflation report having a more widespread negative effect, though Wall Street was higher.
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Blue chips closed lower Friday after a volatile last hour of trade, as rumours of financial troubles among hedge funds unnerved the market, causing a reversal of earlier solid gains, with Wall Street holding up but coming off highs.
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NEW YORK : US blue chips ended lower on Monday on higher oil prices and an analyst downgrade of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer; but techs managed a small gain, helped by an upgrade for Apple Computer.
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NEW YORK - US stocks closed slightly lower yesterday with the Dow industrials hovering around this year&#39;s lows amid uncertainty over the deadlocked US presidential election and a flurry of disappointing earnings reports.
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Blue chips fell on Monday as investors  fretted over higher oil prices and companies warning of lower  earnings, but buying of semiconductor shares helped to reverse  Nasdaq's losses.
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U.S. stocks ended lower on Thursday as investors took profits following data that signalled strength in the economy and revived interest-rate concerns.
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U.S. blue-chip stocks fell  on  Thursday as disappointing earnings reports from companies  including Caterpillar, UPS and Amgen combined with higher oil  prices to turn investors cautious after two days of gains.
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U.S. blue chips ended slightly lower on Wednesday after crude oil climbed above &#36;44 a barrel, renewing fears that high energy costs would cut into corporate profits.
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U.S. blue chips ended nearly unchanged  on Thursday in light volume but technology dipped lower as a  broker downgrade on the semiconductor industry rattled  investors.
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UK blue-chips ended the day weaker, although off lows, with a late morning recovery by Wall Street helping to counter weakness across commodity stocks and further heavy falls in the online gaming sector.
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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 weighed on  investors after two days of solid advances.
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U.S. blue-chip stocks slid lower on Thursday, pulled down by industrial bellwether Caterpillar Inc. , but technology shares remained higher after eBay Inc.  posted strong earnings.
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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.