Tech tumbles as broader market retreats over oil concern

“Technology stocks tumbled Monday as the broader market slipped on concern about climbing crude prices,” Benjamin Pimentel reports for MarketWatch.

“The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 46.31 points, or 2%, to close at 2,264.2 points. The Morgan Stanley High Tech 35 Index also lost 2% while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 1.9%,” Pimentel reports.

“The tech sector’s biggest names were in negative territory,” Pimentel reports. “Apple Inc. (AAPL: 154.40, -7.72, -4.8%) and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO: 20.12, -1.01, -4.8%) both lost 4.8%, Google Inc. (GOOG: 477.32, -14.66, -3.0%) was down 3% and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD: 4.19, -0.17, -3.9%) was behind 3.9%.”

More in the full article here.

12 Comments

  1. All we have to do is use Apple’s soon to be announced iTele. Just think, your own personal teleportation system that you can use to teleport anywhere in the world. Just teleport to an oil rich country, load up on a few buckets of oil, and teleport back.

  2. 2000: Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude.

    ”I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply,” Mr. Bush, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, told reporters here today. ”Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.”

    I guess that isn’t going to happen.

  3. “People will complain that the teleportation is exclusive to Apple approved locations and they will wait for iTele 2.0.”

    No!!! This can’t happen since I’ve sold everything I own on ebay to invest in the iTele lifestyle.

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