{"id":672615,"date":"2010-02-22T16:02:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/equities-tank-in-final-half-hour-of-trading-gold-and-silver-follow-suit-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-22T16:02:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:02:37","slug":"equities-tank-in-final-half-hour-of-trading-gold-and-silver-follow-suit-hrb-mil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/672615","title":{"rendered":"Equities Tank In Final Half-Hour Of Trading, Gold And Silver Follow Suit (HRB, MIL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was quite possibly the most boring trading day of the past year&#8230;. But, the excitement picked up in the final half-hour of trading as an abrupt sell-off occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the whole damage: Dow down 19 points to 10,383, the NASDAQ down 2 points to 2241, and the S&amp;P 500 down almost 2 points to 1107.<\/p>\n<p>Gold and silver followed suit. Gold dropped $6.50 to $1115.60 an ounce and silver fell $0.16 to $16.28 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p>Oil managed to hold above $80 a barrel, up $0.35 to $80.16. <\/p>\n<p>The biggest loser in the S&amp;P today is H&amp;R Block (HRB), as we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hr-blocks-stock-plummets-on-ratings-downgrade-2010-2\">previously mentioned<\/a> &#8211; down 4.5% to $20.16 a share. In contrast, the biggest gainer was Millipore Corp. (MIL), which despite rumors of a takeover bid, soared 21.2% to close at $86.50 a share.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b82ef230000000000267e6b\/gffinal-feb22.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"GF_FINAL Feb22\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/equities-tank-in-final-half-hour-of-trading-gold-and-silver-follow-suit-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/vqqlIy-8BVQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was quite possibly the most boring trading day of the past year&#8230;. But, the excitement picked up in the final half-hour of trading as an abrupt sell-off occurred. Here&#8217;s the whole damage: Dow down 19 points to 10,383, the NASDAQ down 2 points to 2241, and the S&amp;P 500 down almost 2 points to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OYD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}