Equities were hit particularly hard since stock market indexes like the Dow Jones Industrial Average are just off record highs set last week.
That will be at the expense of Kevin Maggs who did his usual hard-working stock-in-trade stuff, but looked a shade off the pace.
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Sutardja says that he fired Steel because he wasn't working hard enough on the stock offering.
Barrick had recorded similar gains, but its weak earnings performance sent the stock down hard.
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Disappointing U.S. corporate earnings reports recently, with DuPont being the latest, have hit the U.S. stock market hard.
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However, the stock bounced hard immediately off the open, squeezing the shorts all the way into the close.
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Take a long, hard look at the stock chart for Human Genome Sciences since it went public in 1993.
Higher oil prices and inflationary fears hit the stock market hard on Tuesday, and even the big oil companies were under pressure.
Online retailers have been particularly hard hit by the stock market slump in technology stocks after the high-profile collapse of sportswear and fashion retailer boo.com in May.
Sure, a company that misses the earnings range it gave investors may have its stock hit hard, but if its long-term fundamentals are sound, the price will move up again.
The optimism is not hard to miss in the stock markets, the US especially.
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Granted, many wealthy Chinese prefer to invest in hard assets than in the stock market or low yielding bonds.
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According to a survey by Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales, effectively all economists agreed that stock prices are hard to predict.
When it comes to investing, it can be hard to pinpoint why a stock moves noticeably in one direction or the other.
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The stock has rallied hard, however, and is now nearly 8 points ahead of the broader iShares Health Care ETF (IYH) (see chart).
All three major stock indexes fell hard around 10 AM in New York, when the report was released, with the homebuilders taking a deeper dive.
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Hard to say if the stock is down on actual or imagined insider selling, but the fact is that the market is at risk of being flooded with Tesla shares.
The stock gapped down hard following the second quarter report in late July as investors were disappointed that revenues came up shy of lofty expectations, and Colgate still has not recovered all the way.
It'd be hard to find a hotter stock than the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the world's largest open-outcry derivatives market that some have called the " Google " of the financial sector because of its high-flying price surge.
It'd be hard to find a hotter stock than the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ), the world's largest open-outcry derivatives market that some have called the " Google " of the financial sector because of its high-flying price surge.
Kelley Wright, editor of Investment Quality Trends, finds that after the spectacular run, it's hard to find a utility stock trading at a reasonable price or one that offers a fat yield, but there are a few, including Atmos Energy and Pinnacle West Capital, yielding 4.3% and 5.3%, respectively.
Investors will be hard pressed to find a cheaper stock in the high-flying technology sector.
But high volume Russian shares are hard to find on the US stock exchange.
Bankers find it hard to face clients if their stock sells like a ragamuffin.
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It is hard to imagine Europe's stock exchanges persuading American regulators to let them in too.
So far in its short existence, the stock has had a hard time holding higher after bounces.
European and Asian stock markets, the Euro currency and U.S. stock indexes were hit hard to the downside on the Cyprus developments over the weekend.
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There is a bit of a nick upwards at the end but in the context of the dominant trend its hard to put a lot of stock in that.
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