The stock market has been nothing if not resilient so far this week. After a huge move upward for stock prices over the past couple of weeks, many skeptics were looking for a significant pullback, but so far, the market just hasn't cooperated. Concerns yesterday about industrial activity in the U.S. as well as the ongoing European situation gave way to positive news on the housing front, and in the end, the Dow Jones Industrials
But not all of the Dow's components were so lucky. Alcoa
United Technologies
Finally, DuPont
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