Stocks tumble as oil falls on economic worries

Published: Monday, Jan. 12, 2009 2:21 p.m. MST
 |  E-MAIL | PRINT | FONT + - 
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street has extended last week's slide on worries that the quarterly results companies begin releasing this week will signal the economy is in worse shape than feared.

Oil prices have tumbled 8 percent Monday to a new low for the year as investors have bet economic weakness will curb demand. That assessment is reinforcing fears that a slowing economy will further erode corporate profits.

The Dow Jones industrial average is ending down 125, or 1.5 percent, at the 8,474 level. Broader indexes fell more than 2 percent.

Recent comments

If the oil prices and the stock prices are going down, Why are the...

Lost in Utah | Jan. 12, 2009 at 2:30 p.m.

4 more years!!!!

Thank you Bush | Jan. 12, 2009 at 2:24 p.m.

latest update at 2:21... oil prices fall... no story... just a byline?

um story? | Jan. 12, 2009 at 2:17 p.m.

previousnext

Latest comments

5A: Bingham rolls to title game

Bingham's got a lot of talent for having a bunch of Juniors and sophomores....

Ben Cahoon is a class act!!

1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge,...

There is a VERY special place in hell for guys like this...Even ANIMALS know...

RE:Joe & Exactly. I tend to see the opposite way. I think that when Dwill...

Joe & Exactly are typical people who don't understand the game of basketball,...

Can BYU root for (ick) Utah Utes?

I guess we only see what we want to see. But, the fact is that if BYU had...

It would be great if BYU could pull this off. Never count out a team that...

That's what i heard too!

Letters: Christian founders

Washington and Franklin believed in Providence, not Got. Franklin started to...

Advertisements
Advertisement