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Market's 3 percent fall suggests deepening worry

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By Chuck Mikolajczak | Reuters – September 23, 2011

 

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks plunged on Thursday, extending a selloff to four days, as policymakers' failure to arrest (停止;阻止) global economic stagnation (停滞) sent markets spiraling (平稳地加速上升或下降) downward.

 

 

Trader Fred Demarco works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

 

Barclays Capital traders Patrick Murphy and James Sculli work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

 

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks plunged on Thursday, extending a selloff to four days, as policymakers' failure to arrest (停止;阻止) global economic stagnation (停滞) sent markets spiraling (平稳地加速上升或下降) downward.

The heavy volume of Thursday's plunge signaled investors are selling in anticipation of more losses. Wall Street's "fear gauge (量表)," the CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange芝加哥期权交易所) Volatility Index (波动率指数), jumped 12 percent, giving the index its biggest 2-day percentage spike (曲线上的陡直线) in a month as investors protected against more losses to come.

Energy and materials shares were among the hardest hit areas on worries of slowing worldwide demand. Signs of a slowdown in China fed those fears.

"It's tough to find anything that is a positive catalyst for the market, either domestically or internationally," said TD Ameritrade Chief Derivatives Strategist J.J. Kinahan.

The Dow Jones industrial average (道琼斯工业平均指数) dropped 391.01 points, or 3.51 percent, to 10,733.83. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (标准普尔500指数) lost 37.20 points, or 3.19 percent, to 1,129.56. The Nasdaq Composite Index (纳斯达克综合指数) slid 82.52 points, or 3.25 percent, to 2,455.67.

Weak data from China followed an unsettling outlook about the U.S. economy from the Federal Reserve ((美国)联邦储备系统) on Wednesday in stoking recession fears. The previous session's losses were sparked after the Fed said it saw "significant downside risks" facing the economy.

China's once-booming manufacturing sector contracted (to become reduced in size) for a third consecutive month, while the euro zone's dominant service sector shrank in September for the first time in two years.

Those searching for positive market signs could point to the benchmark (基准点) S&P (Standard & Poor's) 500 index holding above 1,120, seen as a key technical support level which could trigger more selling if broken.

"We haven't seen the market completely tilt (倾斜) just yet, so that does show there is some resilience (恢复力). There is some fresh capital on the sideline and people aren't necessarily hitting the panic button," said Joseph Greco, managing director at Meridian Equity Partners in New York.

"If we tested 1,100 -- that is where we could see a really sharp decline from there."

Volume of about 13.24 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE (New York Stock Exchange 纽约证券交易所) Amex (American Stock Exchange美国证券交易所) and Nasdaq was well above the daily average of 7.8 billion and the highest since August 10.

U.S. crude oil futures tumbled (drop) more than 6 percent, the biggest one-day percentage drop in six weeks.  

The PHLX (费城股票交易所Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), now known as NASDAQ OMX PHLX, is the oldest stock exchange in the United States, founded in 1790.) oil service sector index tumbled 6.6. Schlumberger (斯伦贝谢) slid 6 percent to 61.22. The S&P materials index fell 5.5 percent, with miner Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (美国自由港迈克墨伦铜金矿公司) Inc off 9.7 percent to $32.14.

Banks also lost ground with the KBW bank index off 2.7. Citigroup shares were down 6.1 percent to $23.96. The Fed's plan to lower long-term rates will compress (压缩) margins for banks that borrow at short-term rates and lend at longer-term rates. The declines also came a day after Moody's cut debt ratings for big lenders.

FedEx (联邦快递) Corp, considered to be an economic bellwether (系铃的公羊, 前导, 领导者), slumped 8.2 percent to $66.58 after the world's No. 2 package delivery company pared (削减) its outlook for the full year.

In addition to the statement on Wednesday, the U.S. central bank detailed additional stimulus measures to help push down long-term rates. Investors worried the latest plan would have little effect on lending and that there appeared to be few solutions to sluggish (缓慢的,迟缓的,没有活力的) worldwide demand.

Near the close, traders exchanged about 1.10 million option contracts in the S&P 500 Index as 2.69 puts were in play for each call, according to Trade Alert. That put-to-call ratio  Puts versus Calls 买入出售比率 was higher than the 22-day moving average of 1.77.

Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by 2,724 to 343, while on the Nasdaq, decliners beat advancers 2,230 to 353.

(Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak, Additional reporting by Doris Frankel; Editing by Kenneth Barry)

 


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