Sentence examples for stocks offset from inspiring English sources

Gains in drug and oil company stocks offset some of the declines in bank and technology shares.

The euro was little changed, as falling U.S. stocks offset disappointment at European reluctance to support the currency.

Stocks slipped yesterday, eroding some of Tuesday's gains, as weakness in technology and oil stocks offset a rally in shares of the Altria Group after it won a favorable court ruling.

Losses among property stocks offset gains though.

Stocks in the rest of Asia edged down, as slides in banking stocks offset some gains in commodity producers.

Cyclical stocks offset some of the losses among financial components in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, but the index still dipped into the red under the weight of financial stocks such as Citigroup c, Merrill Lynch mer and International Business Machines ibm.

Honeywell International and United Technologies also dropped as investors moved cash out of defense-related stocks, offsetting gains in shares of the computer maker Hewlett-Packard.

In the tech-heavy Nasdaq market, a strong performance by computer hardware stocks offsets the broad-based meltdown among Internet stocks as the Composite Index rises 18.96 to 1968.50.

In the tech sector, gains among Internet, chip and telecom stocks helped offset losses in hardware and software stocks.

But the performance of those stocks was offset by the surge in many technology stocks, as enthusiasm for the new economy heated up.

Among blue chips, gains by banking, retail, semiconductor and utilities stocks largely offset losses by forestry and household products stocks, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average edging up 13.11 to 9314.28.