MW: Bank of America Corp. down 1.8%; stocks falling in U.S.
Bank of America Corp. down 1.77%; stocks falling in U.S.
Stocks fell Tuesday morning in New York with shares of Coca-Cola Co. and Bank of America Corp. in focus.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average INDU +0.01% fell 0.12% to 13,536.85.
Nineteen stocks in the index fell while 11 rose as of 9:53 a.m.
Coca-Cola Co. KO +1.20% rose 0.8% to $38.67.
Caterpillar Inc. CAT +0.94% rose 0.6% to $92.51.
Johnson & Johnson JNJ +0.29% rose 0.3% to $68.44.
Bank of America Corp. BAC -1.40% fell 1.9% to $9.13.
Alcoa Inc. AA -0.90% fell 1.6% to $9.43.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM -0.72% fell 1% to $40.78.
The S&P 500 SPX -0.13% edged down 0.26% to 1,457.42.
Consumer staple XLP +0.28% stocks were the best performers in the index. Financial stocks XLF -0.50% lagged.
The NASDAQ Composite Index COMP -0.02% was flat at 3,174.99.
Yields on U.S. 10-year notes 10_YEAR -3.25% fell 5.57 basis points to 1.79 percent.
The U.S. dollar index DXY +0.27% rose 0.123 points to 79.133.
