Why the Dow Fell Again Today

Today, industrials editor and analyst Brendan Byrnes discusses the Dow Jones Industrials' drop today. Not surprisingly, a plethora of bad news from Europe was a main factor in markets' decline, with disappointing earnings playing a role as well. Spanish five and 10-year bond yields hit a eurozone record high, while data showed that euro-area manufacturing activity shrank in July and Moody's cut Germany's outlook. It didn't help that bellwether UPS reported disappointing earnings, coming in below expectations and lowering its full-year earnings guidance. The shipping and logistics giant also predicted U.S. GDP growth for the rest of 2012 to be 1%, less than the around 2% that most economists predict. Check out the following video for more on what drove the Dow today, and why blue-chips Cisco and AT&T were the two biggest losers.

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