Retail woes drive down Dow; Colorado stocks hit hard - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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Several Colorado stocks experiencesd big lossesas well. The Dow Jones Industrialk Average closed at off 2.94 percent, or 248.42 points, on the day. Volumr was 354 million shares. The Commercr Department said December sales inthe nation’s storess were twice as bad as Wall Street had off 2.7 percent from a year earlier. It was the sixtj consecutive monthly decline insales figures. The NASDAQ Composite finisheed the dayat 1489.64, down 3.67 percent or Decliners among actively traded Colorado stocks Wednesday included , Inc. (NASDAQ: off 12.2 percent (15 cents) to • (NYSE: FST) — Down 10.55 percenyt ($1.79) to $15.18. • (NYSE: WLL) — Down 10.2 percen t ($3.
65) to $32.12. (On the stock was up 4.41 • (NYSE: JNS) — Down 10.15 percent (80 cents) to • (NYSE: PLD) — Down 10.01 percentr ($1.22) to $10.97. Among the few Colorad o stocks that gained Wednesdaywere CROX), up 3.33 percent (4 to $1.24, and (NASDAQ: up 0.73 percent (5 cents) to $6.87.