This morning, it looked as though the stock market would fly high and set some new multi-year records, as the broad market benchmarks advanced sharply. But, by early afternoon, stocks had lost their luster, and the Dow Jones Industrials
Leading the Dow down were three stocks in very different industries. Verizon
Disney
Finally, Merck
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