Gary Poster, with essential assists from Galyn Norwood, Phiroon Phihakendr, Jose Quijada, Pavandeep Kalra. PCs take a whack.
Railroads go a little off track.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose just a little, too, up 65.6, or .61 percent, to 10,868.76. Standing proudly in the winners' column were financials, which on the whole, have done pretty well this year. As we come to year's end, there looks to be no respite in site for those banged-up tech stocks. Analysts smacked around IBM and Dell today. Guilt by association certainly hurt Intel, the leading manufacturer of PC microprocessors.