Market Watch

https://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/markets/overview/overview.asp

S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq all went down today. Regarding the individual stocks, the top two percentage losers in the S.& P. 500 were Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. and Synchrony Financial.

Except China, Australia, Saudi, and Israel, all other markets around the world were down.

For the bonds market, the short term treasury bonds were down. However the medium- to- long term bonds were up a bit, indicating that people have the desire to make long-term investment and achieve higher rate of return.



https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/04/28/us/ap-financial-markets-markets-right-now.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

More specifically, banks and phone companies didn't do well: Verizon sank 1.6%. Fortunately, technology companies bucked the sliding trend. Alphabet reported 3.7% increase due to its solid financial reporting, and Amazon added 0.7%. The price of crude oil is heading higher, resulting in the increase of energy companies' stock price. Stocks were falling in the midday trading as investors sized up the latest earning reports. Real estate stocks fell the most.