Market Watch 1/12/10

Stock Market Closing Prices – 1/12/10

Dow Jones Industrial Average ( DJIA ) Close – 10627.26 -36.73
Nasdaq Stock Market Close – 2282.31 -30.10
S&P 500 Close – 1136.22 -10.76

Commodities Closing Prices – 1/12/10

Gold Close – 1128.80
Oil Close – 79.96
Natural Gas – 5.58

Stocks fall as Alcoa posted the worse-than-expected earning report.

The selling extended beyond industrials. Traders sold bank shares on worries that Washington will impose a levy to recoup public money lent to financial companies in 2008 and 2009.

Tomorrow’s report,
Fed's Beige Book