US stocks end lower
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
US stocks finished lower on Monday as geopolitical worries weighed on sentiment during the first trading session of a busy week of corporate earnings reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 48.45 points (0.28 per cent) to 17,051.73 points. The broad-based S&P 500 declined 4.59 (0.23 per cent) to 1,973.63, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index fell 7.44 (0.17 per cent) to 4,424.70. All three indices rallied significantly from morning declines that took the S&P 500 as low as 1,965.77, according to AFP.