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Stocks Fall Sharply on Inflation Data and Financial Worries

The bulls are under pressure in late-morning action as exacerbated concerns for financials and a surge in the Producer Price Index are holding sentiment hostage, overshadowing better-than-expected profit reports from Home Depot and Target.

In late morning trading, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 119.69, or 1.04 percent, to 11,359.70.

Broader stock indicators also dropped. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 11.56, or 0.90 percent, to 1,267.04, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 22.87, or 0.95 percent, to 2,394.11.

Bond prices slipped. While investors often seek the shelter of government debt when bad news arrives, inflation is unwelcome for bonds because it devalues their fixed returns. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 3.83 percent from 3.82 percent late Monday.

The dollar was mixed against other major currencies, while gold prices fell.

One of the few bright spots for Wall Street has been the price of oil. Crude has fallen substantially from its July record above $147 a barrel, and fell 32 cents to $112.55 a barrel Tuesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Monday’s Top Performing SmallCapVoice.com stocks:

Yongye Biotechnology International, Inc.  (OTC BB: YGYB ) was a SmallCapVoice.com top performer for 8/18/08 moving up over 18% on trading volume of 7,000 shares.

Today’s SmallCapVoice.com Hot Stock to Watch:

GWS Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: GWSI) is today’s hot stock to watch.

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 “The increasing demand for sustainable, non-polluting energy has opened tremendous opportunities for microgeneration products and technologies that let people generate their own clean power,” Mr. Reincke said. “Our goal is to help consumers and small businesses become part of the energy solution.”

Investors have shown a renewed appetite for alternative energy stocks after the announcement last week by Billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens that he sold his entire stake in Yahoo, Inc. and now plans to make the U.S. "energy independent" by using wind power and natural gas powered vehicles has sparked investor interest in green energy stocks. Pickens is sinking billions of dollars into a new wind farm in Texas. It is likely to become the biggest in the world, producing enough power for the equivalent of 1.3 million homes.

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