The macroeconomic picture sang the same old song today, and investors responded by doing the same downward dance. Today's version had more signs of slower growth in China, along with continuing problems in Greece, combining to send markets stumbling once more. The bond market was the big outlier, posting price gains that pulled the 10-Year Treasury Yield
On the downside, the financial sector of the Dow was the hardest hit, as Fool analyst Ilan Moscovitz discussed earlier. Yet with 27 out of 30 Dow stocks falling today, financials certainly weren't the only stock to feel the hurt today. Caterpillar
But just as we saw on Friday, a couple of stocks managed to climb despite the downdraft. Cisco Systems
Merck
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