U.S. stocks dropped for a second day after fighting broke out among North and South Korea and concern grew that Europe’s debt crisis and China’s efforts to tame inflation will slow the global economic rebound.
PulteGroup Inc. and D.R. Horton Inc., the two largest U.S. homebuilders, slumped at least 3.4 percent after a report showed existing home sales trailed estimates. Adobe Systems Inc. slipped 3.4 percent after Morgan Stanley said analysts’ estimates for the first half of fiscal 2011 may be too high. Brocade Communications Systems Inc. tumbled 10 percent as the biggest maker of switches for data-storage networks forecast earnings that missed analysts’ predictions.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index slid 1.4 percent to 1,180.73 as of 4 p.m. in New York, and earlier fell 1.8 percent, the most since Aug. 11. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 142.21 points, or 1.3 percent to 11,036.37. Stocks also declined as the fallout from a federal probe of Wall Street insider trading continued into a second day. (more)
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