4:20 pm : Stocks lost ground across the board Tuesday as renewed geopolitical concerns and rising oil prices overshadowed a banner start for the Q1 reporting season.
The market opened slightly higher as the absence of potentially upsetting economic data placed even more emphasis on a better than expected earnings report from Alcoa (AA 34.12 +1.29) lending credence to a widely expected 11th straight quarter of double-digit profit growth. Rohm & Hass (ROH 49.60 +0.55) raising its Q1 outlook and Nokia (NOK 21.20 +0.80) saying that the average selling price of its handsets in
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