Market falls as year's winners sold
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Stocks fell on Monday in the final trading hour of 2007 as traders sold some of the market's best performers, including Microsoft Corp  and Exxon Mobil Corp , to beef up yearly profits.
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Stocks fell on Thursday, led lower by tech shares as investors worried about the impact of a slowing economy on the outlook for profits.
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The supply of unsold properties on the market ballooned and prices declined compared with those a year earlier.
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Retailers felt the pinch following the Christmas trading period as sales plunged by 1.8 percent in January, the biggest monthly fall in four years, official data has shown.
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Even an uptick in sales of existing homes, gave no apparent lift to stocks as traders closed the books on a year that many were happy to put behind them.
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U.S. stocks slipped on Thursday in the latest leg of a global equities sell-off as investors' diminishing appetite for risk drove them to safer assets like bonds.
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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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Here's how last year's stocks fared.
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Shares dropped as the company forecast a decline in 2008 earnings due to generic competition and weaker sales for its diabetes pill.
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Equities fall as Europe fears a wider economic slump.
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European stock markets dropped in morning deals, with mining and metals stocks among the biggest decliners.
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Stocks declined on Friday amid signs   the economy may slow more than expected and reduce the profits   of large industrial companies and other companies sensitive to   the economic cycle.
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NEW YORK  -Stocks fell on Thursday, with the benchmark S&P 500 plummeting to a 15-month low, as news of a plunge in regional factory activity and a hefty loss at Merrill Lynch further clouded an increasingly dire view of the economy.
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Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell more than expected in December, ending a year that brought the sharpest housing slowdown since 1982 and the first annual drop in prices since the Great Depression.
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The stock market fell sharply last week as the subprime mortgage crisis spilled over into the broad financial markets.
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European equity markets fell on Thursday, giving back some of the previous session&#39;s  gains, amid renewed concerns about the fallout from the credit crisis on the banking sector.
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Stocks dropped 1 percent on Friday as investors took profits after two days of sharp gains and before the weekend.