Following yesterday's big 1.23% rally that made up for nearly all of last week's losses, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Index |
Change |
Ending Value |
---|---|---|
Dow Jones Industrial Average | -43.90 [-0.33%] | 13,197.73 |
S&P 500 |
-3.99 [0.28%] | 1,412.52 |
At 9:00 ET this morning came the report from the Case-Shiller home-price index that U.S. home prices fell 0.8% in January, versus expectations of a 0.2% rise. Overall, prices are down 3.8% year over year, slightly below analysts' expectations of a 3.7% fall. With such a slight gap between expectations and actual numbers, investors were unfazed.
At 10:00, half an hour after the market opened, the Conference Board announced that its consumer-confidence index, which gauges consumers' views of the economy, fell from 71.6 last month to 70.2 in March. Analysts had expected a level of 71.5. A level above 90 indicates strong growth, while a reading near 70 indicates weak but steady growth.
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Since passing the Federal Reserve's stress test last Tuesday, Bank of America's
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