Bulls find few places to hide; wal-mart suffers 3% dent

Bulls find few places to hide; wal-mart suffers 3% dent


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Bears slapped around the U.S. stock indexes Friday afternoon, driving the Nasdaq under its 50-day moving average line. The Nasdaq staggered to a 0.8% loss while the S&P 500 dropped 0.7%.


The Dow Jones industrial average, which carries a dividend yield of 2.57%, found little protection as it fell 0.6%. The small-cap Russell 2000 took the hardest hit, down 1.1%. Volume in…