Data Points: U.S. Markets

By MarketBeat Staff

Dow Industrials, down 251.50 points this week, or 2.20% to 11192.58.

• Biggest weekly point and percent drop in three months, since the week ended August 13.
• Seventh largest weekly drop this year.
• Today, it fell 90.52 points, or 0.80%.
• Today’s top contributors to the Dow’s movement and their point contribution: DIS (14.30), INTC (2.42), KFT (1.21), KO (0.91), PG (-0.23).
• Today’s laggers and their point contribution: BA (-17.26), IBM (-12.79), CAT (-10.60), HPQ (-6.43), MCD (-6.43).

Nasdaq Composite, fell 60.77 points this week, or 2.36% to 2518.21.

• Snaps a string of five consecutive weeks of gains.
• Largest weekly point and percent drop since the week ended August 13.
• Today, it fell 37.31 points, or 1.46%.

S&P 500, down 26.64 points this week, or 2.17% to 1199.21.

• Like the Nasdaq, this is its first weekly decline in six weeks.
• Biggest point and percent drop since the week ended August 13.
• Today, it fell 14.33 points, or 1.18%.

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