WHYY Nightly Business Report September 8, 2014
Decline. West texas intermediate fell to an eighth month low and brent crude hit a 14month low dipping below 100 a barrel before coming back just a bit. That pushed shares of oil drillers, oil refiners, Oil Explorers and Oil Services Companies lower today. Case in point, exxonmobil. It was the biggest decliner in the dow today. Falling 1 1 2 . Chevron, the only other energy giant in the dow down about 1 . As for the major averages overall, the dow lost 26. Nasdaq bucked the trend. It was up 9. S p 500 down 6 but Still Closing just above the 2000 mark. Jackie deangelis has more on the slide in ...