Share prices down on Wall Street
13-01-2009
Share prices on Wall Street shares skidded, as traders braced for the start of the quarterly earnings season - expected to show the impact on companies of the deepening economic crisis. The Dow Jones Average fell 126 points, to 8,472 at the closing bell, the fourth straight losing session for blue chips. The Nasdaq composite slumped 2.09 percent and the Standard & Poor's 500 index declined 2.28 percent.
