Why These Dow Stocks Were Down Today

In today's edition of "Talking Stocks," Austin Smith gives a brief view on why a few specific Dow components were down more than the broad index today. Japan is the biggest catalyst sending shares lower, but overall the day was still pretty light and downward momentum weak. Consumer-goods and industrials stocks took the news of Japan's light GDP growth the worst. In the long run, though, many of today's biggest losers are actually expected to be the biggest winners.

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