U.S.
stocks fell, following the biggest drop for the Nasdaq 100 Index in two
years, as technology shares slipped and investors awaited this week™s
start to the corporate earnings season.
Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., and Priceline Group Inc. fell at least 0.4 percent.
The
Standard & Poor™s 500 Index retreated 0.3 percent to 1,860.30 at
9:31 a.m. in New York. The Nasdaq 100 gauge of the biggest technology
stocks slumped 0.6 percent.
The
S&P 500 rose to a record last week before trimming its weekly gain
to 0.4 percent in the last two days, as the selloff in technology shares
overshadowed optimism on Federal Reserve monetary stimulus.
Technology
shares are being hit as traders dump the biggest winners of the bull
market amid concern valuations have advanced too far. The Nasdaq 100
fell the most in two years on April 4 with declines in all but four
stocks. The gauge sank 0.9 percent for the week after surging 35 percent
in 2013.
The
Nasdaq Composite Index, which slid the most in two months on April 4,
trades at 31.8 times reported earnings of the companies in the index.
That™s almost twice the ratio for the S&P 500, which trades at 17
times earnings.
Copy Source: Bloomberg
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