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Closing Glance: Diversified financials plunge



By AP
26 June 2008 @ 04:34 pm EST

NEW YORK - Diversified financial-services' stocks plunged Thursday as soaring oil prices and worries about the financial sector helped push the Dow to its lowest point in nearly two years.

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C 17.41 -0.94
JPM 44 -1.9
CIT 6.87 -0.1
BAC 32.22 -2.26

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Financial stocks were among the hardest hit after an analyst placed a "sell" rating on Citigroup Inc.'s stock and reduced its expectations for the brokerage sector.

The Dow Jones industrials plunging more than 350 points and oil prices rose past $140 a barrel.

How shares of some key diversified financial companies performed on Thursday:

Citigroup Inc., down $1.18, or 6.3 percent, to $17.67.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., down $1.59, or 4.2 percent, to $36.32.

CIT Group Inc., down $1.05, or 12.1 percent, to $7.60.

Bank of America Corp., down $1.80, or 6.8 percent, to $24.81.

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