时事资讯:美国股市及原油价格跟随中国股市走低_时事

时事资讯:美国股市及原油价格跟随中国股市走低

【英文原文】

Stocks, OIL FOLLOW CHINA'S DROP

U.S. investors shied from risk on the final trading day of the month, unloading stocks and commodities following a big stock-market selloff in China.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 47.92 points, or 0.5%, to 9496.28, marking a second straight decline. Alcoa, Caterpillar and Boeing fell more than 3%. United Technologies declined 0.5%. Walt Disney slid 3% after it said it would acquire Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion. Marvel soared 25%.

Despite those losses, stocks finished August ahead of where they started. For the month, the Dow industrials gained 3.5%, the average's best performance for August since 2000.

The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 19.71 points, or 1%, to 2009.06. The SP 500 sank 8.30 points, or 0.8%, to 1020.63. All its sectors fell, led by a decline of 1.9% in its energy sector.

The declines were sparked by an overnight drop in China's benchmark stock index, the Shanghai Composite, which fell 6.7% to 2667.75, its lowest finish since May. It has given back nearly a quarter of its value since it peaked Aug 4.

Typically, China's markets take their cue from trading in the U.S., according to a note earlier this month from analysts at J.P. Morgan. But Monday marked the second Monday in three weeks that a sharp drop in Shanghai was followed by a decline in New York.

'The market seems to be keying off the Shanghai Composite lately even though it didn't pay a lot of attention to it during the run up,' said Kevin Kruszenski, director of equity trading for KeyBanc Capital Markets. 'It shows people are looking for any reason to sell this market on a belief it's come too far, too fast.'