Big share falls feared on Monday
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There are fears that European stock markets may fall sharply on Monday following Friday's falls in the US.
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Business & money: Share price plunges after disappointing profits raising fears over America's economic slowdown
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Stocks declined on Monday, led by financial shares, as a rush by savers to withdraw deposits at a large British mortgage lender fueled worries that the credit market turmoil would spread.
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Wall Street may be on the defensive   this week if reports on housing and growth suggest the United   States economy is headed for an acute slowdown.
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U.S. stock index futures were sharply lower on Monday, as fears of a U.S. recession gripped investors, suggesting Wall Street will join a global equity markets plunge when they resume trading Tuesday.
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Most stocks fell Monday for the first time in four days after confidence in the home building industry dropped to a 16-year low.
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By George Chamberlin , Daily Transcript Financial Correspondent. Early gains Monday eroded quickly and the financial markets finished the session mixed.
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(InfoWorld) - This week, the biggest market declines since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S. caused a crisis of confidence in sectors including technology, leading IT investors to reassess what's in store for the year. Considering that most analysts are predicting moderate -- about 6.5 percent -- global growth in IT product sales this year, vendors have been riding high recently. Key technology suppliers reported better-than-expected earnings in 2006, and IT companies in general enjoyed seven straight months of market gains capped last week by a six-year high in the tech-heavy Nasdaq exchange. But share-price gains for this year were wiped out this week as a precipitous decline in Chinese markets Tuesday led to panic selling around the world. The Nasdaq closed Tuesday at 2407.86, down 96.66 points for the day and 117.08 down from its six-year high last Thursday. The question for IT is whether the decline signals an overdue correction for valuations on technology suppliers: Given the modest prospects for overall revenue growth, have investors been a little too exuberant? "Yesterday's 3-5 percent drop in the popular stock averages is a wake-up call for a market that had become far too complacent, in our view," said Banc of America Securities analyst Tom McManus Wednesday. The Nasdaq slid again Thursday asÂ Dell reported disappointing results for its fourth fiscal quarter ended Feb 2. Dell posted net income of $673 million, compared with $1.01 billion a year earlier. Revenue declined 5 percent from a year ago to $14.4 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial had been expecting $14.9 billion in revenue. Despite the warnings and the grim news from Dell, however, there still appears to be underlying confidence in the tech sector. For example, traders applauded Oracle's announcement Thursday thatÂ it would buy business intelligence software vendor Hyperion SolutionsÂ for $3.3 billion. Oracle shares closed at $16.78, up by $0.35. This is a big endorsement for strength in that sector. Often, an acquiring company suffers share price declines on the assumption that a big buy will negatively affect earnings even in a healthy market. And on Thursday alone, companies in various sectors of IT received kudos from analysts in the form of stock forecast upgrades. CAD maker Autodesk was upgraded to an outperform rating by Robert W. Baird & Co.; business software developer BEA Systems was upgraded from underperform to peer perform by Bear Stearns & Co.; and telecom equipment maker Ciena was upgraded from neutral to overweight by JP Morgan & Co., which noted that the optical market continues to recover faster than expected. Soothing remarks about the overall U.S. economy from Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke to Congress on Wednesday also helped prevent a further big decline in markets. He said he was still looking forward to "moderate" overall growth this year. So far, "moderate growth" has been good enough to stoke investments in IT. If that's an indication of things to come, this week's sharp declines might end up being seen as only a brief correction.
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Stock futures fell on Monday after another sharp fall in Chinese stocks raised concern, but the resilience of other global equities and a steady stream of deal-making may limit losses.
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U.S. stocks could face a challenge  next week to bounce back from Friday's post-Thanksgiving drop  unless there's some tempering of the dollar's weakness that  sparked the sell-off.
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Investors are expected to dump technology shares today in the wake of a financial update last night from bellwether Intel Corp. that one analyst called &quot;a disaster.
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Wall Street looked set to fall on Wednesday as investors worldwide struggled to decide whether a surprise U.S. interest-rate cut the day before was a sign of salvation or of worse to come in troubled markets.
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Wall Street may put the brakes on a  steep decline next week, when a rate cut is anticipated from  the Fed, and Friday's monthly jobs data may trigger a comeback  for stocks after their January funk.
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Stock futures fell on Monday, with investors showing some concern about another big drop in Chinese stocks, but the resilience of other global equities may limit the downward pressure.
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Business & money: Wall Street threatened by crumbling housing market.
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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 China's equity market sell-off fanned worries that stock valuations there are too high and some data indicated U.S. economic growth may slow.
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Stock futures fell on Monday, with  investors showing some concern about another big drop in  Chinese stocks, but the resilience of other global equities may  limit the downward pressure.