Wednesday, April 8, 2009

US stocks suffer 2nd day of falls


US stocks suffer 2nd day of falls
08-04-2009

US investors have dumped stocks for a second day, as the markets prepared for potentially grim earnings reports.

The major exchanges all fell more than 2-percent, including the Dow, which lost 186 points.

Analysts blamed the pullback on profit-taking after a huge advance in March that gave the Dow its best four-week performance in more than 75-years