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Posted: 19 Sep 2013 05:24 PM PDT

NEW YORK: US stocks on Thursday closed mixed, cooling off after Wednesday's torrid rally in the wake of the Federal Reserve's decision to maintain an aggressive stimulus programme.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 40.39 points (0.26 percent) to 15,636.55. The broad-based S&P 500 dipped 3.18 points (0.18 percent) to 1,722.34. Both the Dow and the S&P 500 reached record highs on Wednesday after the Fed announcement. The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index rose 5.74 points (0.15 percent) to 3,789.38.

"You've got to expect a little bit of a pull-back" after Wednesday's "very explosive" rally, said Peter Cardillo of Rockwell Global Capital. "And it's not that much of a pullback."

Dow component JPMorgan Chase fell 1.2 percent after fines of US$920 million were announced against it for securities and governance failures relating to the London whale trading debacle.

Another Dow component, Walt Disney Co., dipped 2.1 percent after Morgan Stanley downgraded the company to "equal weight," arguing that gains in the company's parks and other businesses are already reflected in the firm's valuation.

Disney will likely prosper in 2015 from the Star Wars film, but gains are "already discounted in shares," Morgan Stanley said.

Agilent jumped 3.4 percent after announcing it would spin off its electronic measurements businesses into a new publicly traded company while keeping its life sciences, diagnostics and applied markets divisions under the Agilent name.

Online coupon company Groupon surged 9.0 percent after Stifel Nicolaus upgraded the equity to "buy." The Stifel note cited Groupon as a leader in mobile commerce, according to Barrons.com. -- AFP

Kredit: www.nst.com.my

Khamis, 19 September 2013

NST Online Business Times : latest

NST Online Business Times : latest

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