Stocks Close Mostly Lower
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US stocks closed mostly lower on Tuesday as record oil prices and economic data showing slower-than-expected growth last month weighed on the markets.
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U.S. stocks closed lower on Friday,  weighed down by a number of negative reports from top drug  makers, including Pfizer Inc. PFE.N, and a $2 jump in the  price of crude oil.
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Leading shares closed lower Tuesday and off session highs as Wall Street was softer with InterContinental Hotels Group down on fading bid rumours, dealers said.
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UK blue chips closed lower as Wall Street remained weaker after disappointing inflation data with Alliance & Leicester down after reporting a fall in core operating profit, held back by large scale write-downs.
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Wall Street stocks ended mostly lower Wednesday as investors adopted a wait-and-see approach on the economy, despite Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan&#39;s bullish assessment on the economy.
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Leading shares closed near lows as Wall Street remained weaker on news of credit default troubles at American International Group Inc., with falls from the UK insurers and banking sectors.
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The FTSE 100 closed lower, weighed down by a weak mining sector and disappointing trading news from Standard Chartered, although a positive morning by Wall Street helped British blue-chips finish above session lows, dealers said.
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Leading shares closed down Wednesday, just off session lows, with financial stocks providing the main drag on the Footsie, while Wall Street made heavy losses after disappointing pending home sales data hit investor confidence.
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Stocks ended lower on Friday on signs   the economy may be slowing more sharply than previously   thought, threatening corporate profits, including those of   large industrial companies.
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NEW YORK Stocks were mostly lower Thursday on Wall Street, after data showing a slowdown in economic growth and a rise in oil prices renewed fears of disappointing third-quarter earnings.
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NEW YORK US stocks ended slightly lower Monday, despite receding oil prices, as a raft of disappointing earnings reports and jitters over the close presidential election tempered investors&#39; optimism, traders said.
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European equity markets were lower on Monday, but off their worst levels as heavyweight oil and pharma stocks partially offset losses for financial and mining stocks.
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The Dow industrial average turned lower on Tuesday, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were little changed as concerns about fallout from the housing slump on the economy's outlook cut short an earlier bounce.
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European and Asian stock markets finished narrowly mixed Monday in mostly light trading, while the U.S. financial markets were closed for the Labor Day holiday.
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Stocks declined Monday, the last day of a volatile and difficult year on Wall Street.
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Blue chips closed lower after Wall Street fell back in reaction to stronger crude prices.
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US shares closed just a tad lower last night as the amrket held its breath ahead of the US election. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 7.82 points adrift (0.