Thursday, January 20, 2011

GS earnings drops 52% from prior year, markets drop 1%

Seems Goldman Sachs has some skeletons in the closet (in the form of unreported losses maybe) as Wall Street's own analysts didn't see that one coming dropping 8 pts after reaching a 52 week high yesterday.

Only 37 companies made 50-day new highs which one tenth of the 300 from yesterday.

Still there were notable standouts such as:

Aerospace & Defense with LMT up 1.46%.

Dow component IBM up 5 pts after a positive forward guidance after earnings.

Mostly it was a sea of red starting with:

AAPL, despite record earnings and positive guidance, the stock initially at 350 in the morning, closed near the lows down 1.81 to 338.

GOOG dropped almost 8 points after touching a 52 week high of 642 intraday. Earnings report after the bell Thur afternoon.

PCLN also dropped 8 pts closing at 432.

AMZN dropped 4 pts to 186.

Coal stocks got hammered 5-7% continuing their declines from last Fri. PCX, ANR, and WLT got smashed.

Is there any good news? We'll find out after the bell late Thur.

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