The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and NASDAQ Composite are lower in afternoon trading on Monday. Some of the most actively traded stocks include Bank of America (BAC) down 0.5%, Apple (AAPL) down 2.5%, DryShips (DRYS) lower by 21%, and Halliburton (HAL) down 4.1%.
Good afternoon this is Sayoko Murase with the Week Ahead Market Report for December 8, 2014.
In overseas trading, Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average was higher, up 0.08%, and the Hang Seng was also higher, up 0.19%. In Europe, the FTSE 100 was lower by 1.05% and the German DAX was down 0.72% today.
In economic news, Wholesale Inventories is released tomorrow, Initial Claims, Retail Sales, and Business Inventories on Thursday, and PPI on Friday.
Some of the companies releasing earnings this week include: Burlington Stores (BURL) on Tuesday, Men's Wearhouse (MW) on Wednesday, Lululemon Athletica (LULU) on Thursday, and NQ Mobile (NQ) on Friday.
Join us on Friday for the Weekly Market Wrap and have a wonderful week.
For MarketNewsVideo.com, I'm Sayoko Murase.