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BUZZ-U.S. STOCKS ON THE MOVE-Bank stocks, tech stocks, AGL, ChinaCache

Mon, 24th Aug 2015 15:46

(For faster updates on individual market-movers, Eikon usersplease use search string "STXBZ US"; for the Day Aheadnewsletter, http://link.reuters.com/mex49s; for the Morning NewsCall newsletter, http://link.reuters.com/nex49s)U.S. stock indexes were down on Monday. The Dow Jones industrialaverage was down 2.47 percent at 16,053.11, the S&P 500 was down 2.62 percent at 1,919.3 and the Nasdaq Composite was down 2.67 percent at 4,580.30.

** BANK OF AMERICA CORP, $15.6, -3.11 pct

** CITIGROUP INC, $51.335, -4.23 pct

** MORGAN STANLEY, $32.7, -4.41 pct

** JPMORGAN CHASE & CO, $61.32, -3.58 pct

** GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC, $182.91, -2.57 pct

** WELLS FARGO & CO, $52.01, -3.63 pct

U.S. bank stocks continued to slide after last week's Fedminutes suggested the central bank may not raise interest ratesin September due to international developments, including weakeryuan.

Traders now see a 24 percent chance that Fed will increaserates in September, down from 30 percent late on Friday and 46percent a week earlier, according to Tullett Prebon data.

** APPLE INC, $105.75, -0.01 pct

** NETFLIX INC, $99.845, -3.96 pct

** GENERAL MOTORS CO, $28.06, -5.20 pct

** TESLA MOTORS INC, $223.19, -3.28 pct

** CATERPILLAR INC, $73.59, -1.88 pct

** UNITED STATES STEEL CORP, $15.53, -2.39 pct

** ALCOA INC, $8.24, -5.61 pct

** TRINA SOLAR LTD, $8.09, -1.94 pct

** YUM BRANDS, $77.435, -2.84 pct

** MASTERCARD INC, $88.84, -2.03 pct

Shares of U.S. companies fell at the open on China worries,though a handful of tech stocks were fighting against thebroadly weak market.

** ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD, $64.76, -5.02 pct

** JD.COM INC, $24.33, -2.87 pct

** BAIDU INC, $140.45, -8.15 pct

** SINA CORP, $34.29, -5.38 pct

** YOUKU TUDOU, $15.69, -6.66 pct

** YY INC, $55.2, -6.79 pct

** CHINA DANGDANG, $6.06, -8.46 pct

** JUMEI INTERNATIONAL HOLDING, $9.56, -18.71 pct

U.S.-listed shares of Chinese technology companies fellafter Chinese indexes post their biggest one-day percentagelosses since the height of the financial crisis.

** EXXON MOBIL CORP, $70, -2.95 pct

** CONOCOPHILLIPS, $43.25, -4.71 pct

** CHEVRON CORP, $73.38, -3.14 pct

Oil prices fell more than 6 percent to fresh 6-1/2-year lowsas markets worried about a China-led global economic slowdownthat would drastically hit oil consumption at a time ofplentiful supply.

S&P 500 oil & gas, oilfield services companies havealready lost about $310 billion in market value this year.

** GLAXOSMITHKLINE PLC, $1,282, -3.21 pct

** MERCK & CO, $54.25, -2.73 pct

** JOHNSON & JOHNSON, $92.52, -3.18 pct

** BIOGEN INC, $289.45, -2.09 pct

** CELGENE CORP, $116.393, -2.23 pct

** ELI LILLY & CO, $81.57, -3.50 pct

** BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB CO, $59.56, -2.47 pct

** PFIZER INC, $32.51 -3.07 pct

** AMGEN INC, $150.8 -2.83 pct

** GILEAD SCIENCES INC, $102.55 -2.64 pct

The S&P 500 Healthcare sector index declined 3percent to 801.97, Nasdaq Biotechnology index fell nearly4 percent at 3436.71

** AGL RESOURCES INC, $61.96, +29.46 pct

** SOUTHERN CO, $44.35, -3.17 pct

Power producer Southern said it would buy AGL Resources forabout $8 billion in cash to become the No. 2 U.S. utility bycustomers after Exelon Corp.

** VITAL THERAPIES INC, $4.4701, -74.72 pct

The drug developer said it would stop two ongoing trialstesting its cell-therapy, ELAD, after it failed a late-stagestudy in liver failure patients.

** CHINACACHE INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD, $6.2,+10.91 pct

The China-based network service provider plans to buy backup to $6 million worth of outstanding ADSs over the next 12months. This is in addition to ChinaCache's existing $10 millionshare buyback.

** EXELIXIS INC, $5.309, +1.12 pct

The U.S. FDA grants the drugmaker's lead drug, cabozantinib,"breakthrough therapy" status to treat patients with the mostcommon form of kidney cancer.

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