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 Major indexes, however, rose for the first week in four, boosted in
part by the European Central Bank's decision on Thursday to further
stimulate euro zone growth.
Materials shares <.SPLRCM> weighed on the S&P 500, falling 1.6
percent after Goldman Sachs cut its price target on various miners
including a 42 percent downward revision to Freeport McMoRan <FCX.N>
stock to $18. Goldman separately slashed forecasts on commodity
prices including aluminum, copper and nickel.
UPS <UPS.N> was among the largest drags on the S&P 500 after a
gloomy outlook, alongside Exxon Mobil <XOM.N>. On Friday Credit
Suisse cut Exxon to "underperform."
Declines were capped by bullish investor sentiment after Thursday's
move from the European Central Bank, which detailed a
bigger-than-expected bond-buying program to lift the region's
sagging economy and fight deflation.
"From where we're sitting, we're sensing continuation (from last
year), the trend is still the upside," said Gordon Charlop, a
managing director at Rosenblatt Securities in New York. "The
corrections and the volatility will be a little more pronounced, a
little more dramatic, but the trend remains intact."
The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> fell 141.38 points, or 0.79
percent, to 17,672.6, the S&P 500 <.SPX> lost 11.33 points, or 0.55
percent, to 2,051.82 and the Nasdaq Composite <.IXIC> added 7.48
points, or 0.16 percent, to 4,757.88.
For the week, the Dow rose 0.9 percent, the S&P gained 1.6 percent
and the Nasdaq added 2.7 percent.
UPS gave a fourth-quarter earnings outlook that was below
expectations, citing a disappointing performance in U.S. domestic
ground shipments. Shares slumped 9.9 percent to $102.93.
With 18 percent of S&P 500 companies having reported, 72.2 percent
have topped earnings expectations, while 54.4 percent have beaten
revenue forecasts, according to Thomson Reuters data. That compares
with the long-term average of 63 percent for earnings and 61 percent
for revenue.
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Starbucks <SBUX.O> rose 6.6 percent to $88.22 a day after the coffee
chain reported same-store sales growth that was better than expected
in its Americas region.
GoPro <GPRO.O> shares jumped 8.5 percent to $52.48 after a
partnership with the U.S. National Hockey League paved the way for
players to wear GoPro cameras during league games.
Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by 1,678 to
1,368, for a 1.23-to-1 ratio on the downside; on the Nasdaq, 1,514
issues fell and 1,207 advanced for a 1.25-to-1 ratio favoring
decliners.
The benchmark S&P 500 index was posting 73 new 52-week highs and 6
new lows; the Nasdaq Composite was recording 91 new highs and 56 new
lows.
About 6.4 billion shares changed hands on U.S. exchanges, compared
to the daily average so far this month of 7.3 billion according to
BATS Global Markets data.
(Reporting by Lucas Iberico Lozada; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli)
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