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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Stocks fall on weak home sales report By TIM PARADIS,AP Business Writer AP - 1 hour 44 minutes ago NEW YORK - Stocks are turning lower as an unexpectedly large drop in home sales is dashing hopes that the economy is healing some its biggest wounds. ADVERTISEMENT The National Association of Realtors says sales of existing homes fell 3 percent to an annual rate of 4.57 million last month, from a downwardly revised pace of 4.71 million units in February. Sales had been expected to fall to an annual pace of 4.7 million units, according to Thomson Reuters. The Dow Jones industrial average is down 60 at the 7,828 level. The blue chips had been down about 25 ahead of the report. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is down 5 at 838. The Nasdaq composite index is down 14 at 1,329. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. NEW YORK (AP) _ Stocks fluctuated in early trading Thursday as several stronger-than-expected earnings reports raised hopes that the economy was starting to stabilize. Several companies offered investors nuggets of optimism. Profits at Apple Inc. and eBay Inc. boosted expectations for technology companies. Defense contractor Raytheon Co. raised its full-year earnings forecast, and PNC Financial Services' first-quarter profit came in well ahead of what analysts had been expecting. Not all reports were upbeat, however. Earnings from UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, fell short of expectations. Investors are awaiting a report on home sales. Economists say a halt in the slide of home prices will help banks lend more and the overall economy recover. A real estate trade group's report is expected to show sales of existing homes fell slightly in March after jumping sharply a month earlier. The government said new unemployment claims rose more than expected last week, while the number of workers continuing to file claims for jobless benefits topped 6.13 million, the 12th straight weekly record. In the first hour of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average slipped 1.99, or less than 0.1 percent, to 7,884.58. Broader stock indicators rose. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 4.14, or 0.5 percent, to 847.69, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 3.30, or 0.2 percent, to 1,649.42. The modest moves in the market's major indicators came a day after stocks ended mostly lower on worries about the health of banks and concerns that the market has risen too fast since logging 12-year lows more than six weeks ago. The Dow is up 20.5 percent since then. In other trading Thursday, bond prices fell, pushing the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note up to 2.97 percent from 2.94 percent late Wednesday. Light, sweet crude rose 67 cents to $49.52 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The dollar was mixed against other major currencies, while gold prices rose. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 0.22 percent. In afternoon trading, Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.6 percent, Germany's DAX index fell 0.5 percent, and France's CAC-40 rose 0.2 percent. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World Great Train Robber must wait on parole decisionAP - 29 minutes ago Clinton: Pakistan realizing threat from insurgentsAP - 38 minutes ago Electricity providers say plan would raise pricesAP - 42 minutes ago Senate vote on Sebelius likely to slipAP - 45 minutes ago Woman, 20, jailed in university shooting threatAP - 46 minutes ago Most Popular – World Viewed IMF sees deeper 2009 decline, weak 2010 IMF says world in recession, auto giants flop Robust profits mask problems in bank sector Fertility doctor on brink of cloning human: report Charred meat linked to pancreatic cancer risk View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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