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The Big Moves Stock Market on Friday


The stock market ended mostly lower on Friday, put the Dow Jones industrial average to first losing week of 2012, after the government report that economic growth was slower at the end of last year than expected.

Utility companies boost the way decline with a drop of 1.3 percent. Most of the other nine industries in the S&P also drop, but only a bit, continuing a curious trading this year. Trading has been quiet in the past four weeks, a big alteration from the violent moves up and drop which signed much of 2011.

Among stocks making big moves’ on Friday:

Chevron down more than 2 percent, the most declining of the 30 stocks in the Dow average, after its quarterly gains and revenue emerge in well under what analysts were expecting. Oil and natural gas production was down.

Ford down 4 percent after reporting disappointing earnings due to the weak sales in Europe. The company said that the yields were also affect by problems at parts suppliers in Thailand because of flooding.

Starbucks down 1 percent after reporting on Thursday that full-year yields probably next session in below expectations.

Procter & Gamble decline less than 1 percent after slashing its earnings outlook.

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