Stocks slide as investors run from risk
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Stocks fell on Friday, capping their worst week in more than four years, as a rapidly diminishing appetite for risk fueled the latest leg of a global equities sell-off.
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Stocks fell on Friday, sending the Nasdaq down more than 1 percent, as investors worried that a diminishing appetite for riskier assets after this week's market rout will drive stocks down even more.
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Stocks declined Monday, the last day of a volatile and difficult year on Wall Street.
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Stocks fell on Friday as investors   worried that the economy may get bruised by a   sharper-than-expected slowdown, which prompted them to sell   shares of big industrial companies such as heavy equipment   maker Caterpillar Inc. CAT.N.
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Stocks tumbled on Tuesday, sending the benchmark S&P 500 index to its biggest one-day slide in more than 3-1/2 years as a sell-off in China's equity market fanned worries that stock valuations there are too high and some data indicated U.S. economic growth may slow.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday, as interest-rate concerns spurred investors to lock in profits from the market's spring rally.
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Stocks dropped on Tuesday as trouble in the subprime mortgage market fueled selling of financial sector shares and the housing slump took a toll on companies' outlooks.
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World stocks tumbled on Monday as fears gripped investors that a sliding U.S. economy would drag others down with it.
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Stocks dropped on Wednesday, with the Nasdaq slumping more than 1 percent, as recession fears hurt manufacturing and consumer discretionary stocks and financial shares suffered further declines.
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Stocks slid on Friday after a manufacturing index showed its weakest reading in more than three years, hurting shares of manufacturers like 3M Co.  and Caterpillar Inc. and prompting worries that the U.S. economy was slowing too quickly.
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Stocks fell on Monday as investors fretted about the U.S. economy's health and fears about a global slowdown mounted.
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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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Stocks tumbled on Tuesday, sending the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index down more than 2 percent, after China's main equity index plunged on concerns that share valuations there had become overextended and economic growth may slow.
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Stocks slid sharply on Tuesday, joining a global equity rout on fears of a U.S. recession and pushing the Nasdaq into bear market territory.
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U.S. stocks dropped on Monday, led by financial shares, as a rush by savers to withdraw deposits at a large British mortgage lender fueled concerns that turmoil in the credit markets would spread.
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Stocks fell on Tuesday as the housing slump took a toll on companies' earnings outlooks, while trouble in the subprime mortgage market hurt financial companies' shares.
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U.S. stocks tumbled on Friday, battered by disappointing results from such bellwethers as Caterpillar and Google, and more signals that fallout from the risky subprime mortgage market may spread.