Big selloff at Wall Street startU.S. stocks falter at open on concerns about oil and housing; Nasdaq down 1%.NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks weakened at Thursday's open on concerns about oil and housing. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 0.6 percent. The Nasdaq composite index skidded 1.1 percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 index was 0.3 percent lower. Among stocks in the news Thursday: Exxon Mobil (Charts, Fortune 500), Ford Motor (Charts, Fortune 500), Apple (Charts, Fortune 500), Kraft Foods (Charts), D.R. Horton (Charts) and Beazer Homes (Charts, Fortune 500). |
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