MW: Bank of America Corp. up 1.34%; bond yields slide
Stocks fell Wednesday morning in New York with shares of Bank of America Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. in focus.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average INDU -0.17% fell 0.19% to 13,177.59.
Twenty-one stocks in the index fell while 9 rose as of 10:17 a.m.
Bank of America Corp. BAC +1.34% rose 1.2% to $8.3.
Walt Disney Co. DIS +0.85% rose 0.8% to $50.05.
Home Depot Inc. HD +0.76% rose 0.7% to $56.70.
Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ -1.90% fell 2.1% to $19.52. The company is expected to report its latest quarterly results after the bell.
Caterpillar Inc. CAT -1.57% fell 1.7% to $88.79.
Intel Corp. INTC -0.84% fell 1.1% to $25.82.
The S&P 500 SPX -0.09% edged down 0.17% to 1,410.71. Financial XLF +0.17% stocks were the best performers in the index. Material stocks XLB -0.46% lagged.
The NASDAQ Composite Index COMP -0.05% fell 0.2% to 3,060.81.
Yields on U.S. 10-year notes 10_YEAR -2.72% fell 5.28 basis points to 1.75 percent.
The U.S. dollar index DXY +0.00% rose 0.041 points to 81.948.
