Missed it. The dow ended with a piddling 0. 2 decline. Not much at all. But between the bells, it swung. 425 points from peak to troll in a wide volatile trading session. At one point, up 282. At another, down 143. For the First Time Since 2009 the dow moved from being up 1. 6 to ending negative on the day. Pick your reasons for the volatility. The bulls Earnings Report yesterday. Some solid chinese trade but then the bears took over on trouble technicals. Word that germany may be bulking by europes central bank and of course oil. It resumed its problematic slide today as brent crude briefly traded at parody with domestic oil. Heres how the major averages ended the day and again, those numbers deceived. The dow closed 25 points lower and nasdaq 3 and s p 500 off by a mere 5 points. U. S. Oil closed 18 cents lower at 45. 89 a barrel and actually it turned positive in afterhours trading for a while. Brandt closed at 46. 59 a barrel. In the bond market the yield on the benchmark ten year
But weh results from walmart and home depot. Both of barometers of Consumer Spending and the Worlds Largest retailer reporting sluggish retail and a profit outlook for the Current Quarter below expectations home depot has a solid quarter and raised the full year forecast as a matter of fact. Sending shares of walmart lower by 4 , making it the worse stock within the dow jones nux. Courtney has more tonight. The Worlds Largest retailer didnt have the worlds greatest kwrt. The First Quarter profit fe slightly shy and so did those open less than a year. And the job programs for employs and investment in e kmer commerce cut into the quarterly profit but it is still growing and traffic came in positive for the second straight quarter. Still, analysts say walmart has work to do within the company as well as balancing skpernal factors. When your business is driven by grocery more than anything else if grocery is more than 50 of the business now, you to lead with a compelling of fresh food and
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