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Stocks Headed for a Mixed Finish

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Stocks are headed for a mixed finish in trading today, with the Dow Jones currently in green and the S&P 500, and Nasdaq currently in red. Stocks have struggled for direction in trading today weak fourth-quarter results from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) weighed down investors’ sentiment.

At last check, the Dow Jones was trading 0.59% higher at 12,698.07, the S&P 500 was trading 0.19% lower at 1,312.03, and the Nasdaq was trading 0.30% lower at 2,780.07.


Consumer Non-Cyclical stocks have been the worst performers in the S&P 500 in trading today. At last check, Consumer Non-Cyclical stocks were trading 1.10% lower. Transportation stocks are also down sharply in late trading. At last check, Transportation stocks were trading 0.71% lower. Financials have been the best performers in trading today. At last check, Financials were trading 0.99% higher.

Among the major gainers and losers in trading today are Google, which is currently trading 8.78% lower at $583.40, AsiaInfo-Linkage Inc. (NASDAQ: ASIA), which is currently trading 16.94% higher at $11.60, The Talbots Inc. (NYSE: TLB), which is currently trading 18.22% higher at $3.18, GE, which is currently trading 0.37% lower at $19.08, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), which is currently trading 5.03% higher at $29.54, Schlumberger Limited (NYSE: SLB),which is currently trading 0.71% higher at $73.38, and Parker-Hannifin Corporation (NYSE: PH), which is currently trading 4.23% lower at $81.38.

European markets ended mostly lower in trading today. The FTSE 100 Index in London ended the day 0.22% lower at 5,728.55, and the CAC 40 Index in Paris ended the day 0.22% lower at 3,321.50.

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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.


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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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