Earnings reports rile marketsDow comes off record closing high as Caterpillar, Google results scare investors.NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks fell at Friday's open, with two major indexes easing from closing records, after disappointing results from Caterpillar and Google. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 58 points and fell below 14,000. The Nasdaq composite index retreated 0.4 percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 index was down 0.3 percent. Among stocks in the news Friday: Caterpillar (Charts, Fortune 500), Google (Charts, Fortune 500), Citigroup (Charts, Fortune 500), Microsoft (Charts, Fortune 500), Schlumberger (Charts) and Wachovia (Charts, Fortune 500). |
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