Thursday, August 04, 2011

Media stocks drop more than market as whole

Stocks fell across the board Thursday in the worst day of trading since 2008. The drop was fueled by a global credit crisis and a weak U.S. economic recovery, with the expectation that Friday's jobs report will add to the worries. The Dow fell 4.3 percent, the S&P 500 fell 4.8 percent, and the Nasdaq fell 5.1 percent. Most media stocks took a larger hit than the market as a whole.

“Many stocks follow economic expectations up and down. A few, like hard metals, do better in a down market. But newspapers’ fortunes vary up and down even more than the economy itself,” says Poynter media business analyst Rick Edmonds.

Newspaper Company Stock Prices August 4, 2011
Company
% change from opening to close
A.H. Belo -3.48%
Gannett -5.59%
Journal Communications -5.94%
Lee Enterprises -15.96%
McClatchy -9.66%
Media General -2.93%
New York Times -7.56%
E.W. Scripps -5.62%
Washington Post -6.21%
Source: Yahoo Finance


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