NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks sank Thursday, ending the fastest rally in the S&P 500 since March 2009.
Bank stocks dragged the market lower after JPMorgan Chase & Co. reported that a slowdown in investment banking hurt its results in the third quarter. An afternoon surge in technology stocks limited some of the losses.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 40.72 points, or 0.4 percent, to close at 11,478.13. JPMorgan fell 4.8 percent. Other banks also fell. Citigroup Inc. dropped 5.3 percent, Morgan Stanley 4.4 percent and Bank of America Corp. 5.5 percent.
JPMorgan is the first big U.S. bank to report earnings. Next week Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley will report. JPMorgan is widely considered the strongest U.S. bank, so the results don't bode well for other financial companies, said Jason Lilly, a portfolio manager at Rockland Trust Investment Management Group. JPMorgan's income fell 4 percent, hurt by a 31 percent plunge in investment banking fees.
An afternoon rally in technology stocks trimmed some of the market's losses. Yahoo Inc. rose 1 percent as investors speculated the company might be bought. Technology stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 1 percent, the most of any industry group in the index. The technology-focused Nasdaq composite rose 15.51, or 0.6 percent, to 2,620.24.