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Stocks Suffer As Federal Reserve Officials Differ On Securities – Acadiana Business Index
Wall Street is pulled down by the Fed minutes. Mark Lasseigne has your stock market report on today's Acadiana Business Index.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 97 points to 12,781.
- Federal Reserve officials were divided at their last meeting over whether and when to start buying more securities. The Fed's portfolio has more than doubled since 2008, and now holds $2.9 trillion in assets.
- Leading the declines were industrials stocks, after a report showed industrial production unchanged in January, disappointing economists' expectations for an increase.
- In corporate news, Procter & Gamble said it has terminate the deal to sell its Pringles business to Diamond Foods, and instead will sell the business to Kellogg for $2.7 billion. Kellogg rose 5.1% while Diamond Foods added 5.2%.
- Deere fell 5.4% after topping earnings and revenue estimates, but reported farm and construction machinery sales that were below the company's previous forecast.
- Crude-oil closed to $101.56 a barrel.
- Gold closed at $1,726 an ounce.
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