The 500-point swing underscored the market's continued volatility amid concerns that the global economy is heading into a deep recession.
Although oil prices have plunged more than 70percentt since July as global consumption fell, Monday's rocket attacks and concerns that Israel was on the brink of an all-out war on Hamas underscored the market's sensitivity to conflict in a region that produces a third of world's crude supply.
A commercial for Visa cards featuring the twins, first broadcast last October, has underscored their marketing appeal.
Blue chips trailed the tech heavyweights, despite a leap toward positive territory in the last hour of trading that underscored the markets bullish undertone.
FitBit and Xiaomi are emerging as the main contenders for the high and low ends, respectively, of the fitness tracker market, however, and as recent layoffs at Jawbone underscore, the market may become increasingly competitive and difficult for smaller players.
Underscoring the market's strong bullish undertone, technology stocks recovered at an impressive pace from this morning's setback although most market yardsticks remain in negative territory.
The Dow industrials ranged more than 550 points, underscoring the market's continued volatility amid concerns that the global economy was heading into a deep recession.
The demand for Pandora, a company from Oakland, Calif., that is facing increasing competition from the likes of Amazon and Apple, underscores the market's heady exuberance for consumer Internet companies.
This portfolio that underscores the market's central nervous system also provides an early look into downstream investment opportunities.
The move to squeeze its suppliers Kyocera and Sumitomo underscores the market and competitive selling price and margin pressure for Intels microprocessors.
