As for yesterday's crashing stock market in Greece, it nary made a headline when the following events scooped the bad news:
Greece and lenders strike upbeat tone, deal seen on bailout | Reuters
Markets |
Wall Street moves lower on Apple, interest rate worries
DJ: 17,550.69 -47.51 NAS: 5,105.55
-9.84 S&P: 2,093.32
-4.72
(Reuters) Wall
Street ended lower on Tuesday for a third straight session as investors worried
about a rise in interest rates while Apple's shares hit their lowest in over
six months.
The iPhone maker's shares
fell 3.21 percent to $114.64, firmly below their 200-day daily moving
average, a key technical level closely watched by traders. The stock was the
biggest drag on the three major U.S. indexes.
A slowdown in China and skepticism over demand for iPhones were
contributing to pressure on Apple's shares, traders said.
"Apple has been the weak sister in the market today,"
said Alan Gayle, senior investment strategist and director of asset allocation
at Ridge Worth Investments in Atlanta, Georgia. "But if you look at the
sectors, most everything is down with the exception of materials."
Stocks extended losses after Atlanta Federal Reserve President
Dennis Lockhart told the Wall Street Journal that September may be the right
time for Fed to lift interest rates.
The Dow Jones industrial
average .DJI fell 0.27 percent to end at 17,550.69
and the S&P 500.SPX lost 0.22 percent to 2,093.32. The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 0.19 percent finish at
5,105.55.
Eight of the 10 major S&P sectors fell, with the utilities
index's .SPLRCU 1.64 percent decline leading the losers.
The Fed has said it needs to see a sustained economic recovery
before it raises interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade.
Soft economic data had
prompted some investors to argue that the Fed might hold off on raising rates
until December. After the Fed meeting last week, investors expected a rate
increase in September.
"The market is getting such a mixed bag of rhetoric from
the Fed, it seems like the Fed isn't sure what it's going to do," said
Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank in Chicago.
After the bell, shares of crafts website Etsy (ETSY.O) fell
9 percent and Walt Disney (DIS.N) lost
1.4 percent after the companies posted quarterly results that disappointed Wall
Street. First Solar (FSLR.O)
posted better-than-expected quarterly results and guidance and its stock was up
10 percent.
During the session, American International Group (AIG.N) fell
2.82 percent after the insurer's underwriting income fell in almost all of its
units, while home and auto insurer Allstate (ALL.N) fell
10.15 percent after its profit missed expectations.
Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by 1.23
to 1. On the Nasdaq, 1,414
issues fell and 1,376 advanced for a 1.03-to-1 ratio favoring decliners.
The benchmark S&P
500 index was posting 32 new
52-week highs and 26 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite
was recording 91 new highs and 127 new lows.
Some 6.4
billion shares changed hands on U.S. exchanges, below the five-day
average of 7.0 billion this month, according to BATS Global Markets.
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