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Stocks closed mixed as quarterly results from Bank of America and National City fueled worries about bank earnings, while energy and tech gained.
The tech-fueled Nasdaq turned positive in the afternoon when Apple [AAPL
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Bank of America [BAC
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the second-largest US bank, badly missed analyst expectations as it said first-quarter profit fell, hurt by write-downs and rising credit losses. National City, [NCC
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The mixed bag of news renewed questions of whether the market had found a bottom and was ready to break out of its range, after the major indexes each gained more than 4 percent last week.
"We've given signs at least in the short run that we've put in the financial panic bottom. Now we've got to work our way through regional banks and others," said Art Cashin, director of floor operations at UBS. "The market is still very jiterry and very light volumes."
Toymaker Hasbro [HAS
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Pharmaceuticals also were moving the market. Dow component Merck [MRK
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Shares of Novartis [NVS
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Drug maker Eli Lilly [LLY
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And small-cap software supplier Packeteer [PKTR
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