Interest Rate Jitters Punish Stocks
Stock prices fell on fears of rising interest rates after the Fed served notice yesterday that their agressive easing campaign has come to an end. Intel fell after one brokereage cut its earnings estimates and Bristol-Myers Squibb suffered from disappointing results in clinical trials of its new heart medication.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 134 points (1.3%) to 10,502, the S&P 500 index lost 18 points (1.6%) to 1152, and the Nasdaq Composite plunged 48 points (2.5%) to 1833. Airline and computer related shares paced the broad based decline. Volume was moderate with 1.3 billion shares trading on the Big Board and 1.6 billion shares changing hands on the Nasdaq.
10:30:31 AOL SHORT 2000 25.24 -0.06
PQE BOT 1700 40.24 +0.61
Overnights:
LU BOT 4000 4.55 -0.11
BBH BOT 1000 127.47 -3.07
HET BOT 2000 42.92 +0.53
IBM SHORT 1000 106.61 +0.02
MLNM BOT 2000 22.60 +0.76
DNA BOT 2000 51.97 -0.24
ADBE BOT 2000 39.65 -1.30
CLOSED P&L: $0 OPEN P&L: $2,080
TOTAL CLOSED P&L: $14,381