Saturday, 16 June 2018

Stock News

The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 84.83 points, or 0.34 percent, to 25,090.48, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 3.07 points, or 0.11 percent, to 2,779.42 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 14.66 points, or 0.19 percent, to 7,746.38. 

For the week, the Dow was down 0.9 percent while the S&P 500 rose 0.01 percent and the Nasdaq gained 1.3 percent, its fourth consecutive weekly advance.

Of the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500 six ended the day in negative territory.

The energy sector .SPNY was the biggest percentage loser, down 2.1 percent as oil prices LCOc1 tumbled more than 3 percent ahead of next week’s OPEC meeting.

Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.21-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.02-to-1 ratio favored advancers.

The S&P 500 posted 23 new 52-week highs and four new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 152 new highs and 40 new lows.

Volume on U.S. exchanges was 9.9 billion shares, compared to the 6.9 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.

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