KQED Nightly Business Report April 5, 2014
That initially sent stocks higher, even pushing the dow and the s p to record high levels. But then investors began to sell socalled momentum stocks, companies that had been some of the sharpest and fastest price gains over the past year. Big Name Technology giants, biotech companies, internet and social networking darlings, all of them suffering from big drops. The dow fell triple digits down 160 points. But the nasdaq was the hardest hit, losing 110 points. Thats a drop of more than 2. 5 . And the s p lost almost 24 points. Sheila dharmarajan watched the market drama from the Nasdaq Exchange...