NEW YORK -- Stocks posted modest losses Friday after a disappointing monthly jobs report brought fresh concerns that a recovery in the troubled labor market may be a long way off. The Dow Jones industrial average fell for a fourth straight day, losing 22 points a day after tumbling 203 points following weak reports on manufacturing and weekly claims for jobless benefits. The market's optimism has been tested this week by a number of economic indicators that have either weakened or fallen short of expectations. That has led investors to question whether the 50 percent surge in stocks over the past six months can be sustained.
NEW YORK -- The stock market is keeping its momentum going, giving shares their best week in more than two months. Moderate gains Friday led by health care and utility stocks pushed major indexes to their best weekly performance since July. A rebound in the dollar weighed on energy and material stocks. The stock market's seven-month rally was put firmly back on track this week after two down weeks driven by disappointing economic data. Major stock indicators rose 4 percent for the week.
NEW YORK - Stocks closed mixed on Wall Street Wednesday, with blue chip shares edging lower as investors found little reason to recommit to the market before the beginning of the corporate earnings season and ahead of two key economic indicators due out this week. Cash flowing into mutual funds helped prop up some sectors of the market, including technology shares, but on the whole, investors were holding back ahead of reports today on December sales for major retailers and another report Friday on December employment.
Although it loosened its grip slightly in March, the recession is still holding firm in Oregon. And the state's economy doesn't show signs of improving during the next few months, according to a report released this week by the University of Oregon. The UO's Index of Economic Indicators fell by .06 percentage points to 84.9 in March, a less severe drop than the sharp declines seen at the end of 2008.
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks closed mixed on Wall Street Wednesday, with blue chip shares edging lower as investors found little reason to recommit to the market before the beginning of the corporate earnings season and ahead of two key economic indicators due out this week. Cash flowing in to mutual funds helped prop up some sectors of the market, including technology shares, but on the whole, investors were holding back ahead of reports today on December sales for major retailers and another report Friday on December employment.
After sliding on Monday, the S&P 500 moved higher mid-week, reflecting tepid optimism in the eurozone, even though here at home we had what I would call mediocre economic data. I categorize the data as mediocre because it was far from robust and did not suggest a dramatic uptick in the economy. Rather in aggregate, this week's data, while modestly ahead of expectations, is still far below anything that would suggest a vibrant economy. The best example is the report from the Institute for Supply Management on its manufacturing and services indicators - while both data points were ahead of Wall Street forecasts for September, both remained very close to the expansion/contraction line marked by a reading of 50, a place they have resided at for the past several months.
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NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Commodity markets were beset by a nearly unprecedented onslaught of investor selling on Thursday [May 5] as modest early profit-taking on mounting economic worries snowballed into one of the worst days on record. In a slide reminiscent of the steep sell-offs in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Brent crude oil dived a record $12 a barrel, natural gas dropped over 7 percent and silver, whose earlier losses were a catalyst for the slide, slumped by nearly $5, its biggest one- day dive since 1980.
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