Today proved to be the calm before the coming storm of second-quarter earnings releases. Although the stock market fell pretty sharply in the morning, it regained a lot of that lost ground in the afternoon, with the Dow Jones Industrials
But even though advancers and decliners among the Dow stocks were evenly split, some of the declines were fairly severe. DuPont
Caterpillar
Finally, ExxonMobil
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