Wall Street falls below 13,000 mark

0 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Aug 16, 2007 | by Madlen Read, Associated Press

The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 11.33, or 1.49 percent, to 751.54.

Declining issues outnumbered advancers by 5 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where trading volume came to 4.31 billion shares, up from 3.72 billion shares Tuesday.

Gold prices rose. The dollar rose against the euro and British pound, but fell versus the yen.

Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average slid 2.19 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 lost 0.56 percent, Germany's DAX index rose 0.28 percent, and France's CAC-40 dropped 0.66 percent.

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