Marker Close: Another Listless Trading Day (BAC, NVDA, TXN, AMD, BIDU, YHOO)

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The market went up and then down. By the end of the trading day, most of the indexes were in the red, but not by much. The two pieces of news that traders had to digest both came early in the day. The National Association of Realtors said existing home sales rose 7.6% to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.13 million. Housing market progress is still painfully slow. Weekly jobless claims, a notoriously fickle number, rose 12,000 to 465,000. A better indication of the job market -- continuing claims -- fell 48,000 to 4.49 million. The figure is still staggeringly large and a sign the the joblessness problem remains firmly entrenched.



The numbers:



Dow Jones 10,662.42 -76.89 (-0.72%)

S&P 500 1,124.83 -9.45 (-0.83%)

Nasdaq 2,327.08 -7.47 (-0.32%)

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