NEW YORK —
Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street on worries that China and Europe are in worse shape than previously thought and that Americans are spending at a slower pace.
Central banks in China and Europe took action on Thursday to bolster their flagging economies. Poor retail sales for June offset some promising job numbers from the Labor Department.
The Dow Jones industrial average is down 56 points to 12,888 in early trading Thursday. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 4 points to 1,370 and the Nasdaq index gave up 2 points to 2,974.
National News
July 5, 2012
Stocks down on global worries, weak retail sales
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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch’s brew of cancer-causing chemicals.
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