Stocks 7/52: Not a Good Week (or Year)

Stocks took a beating this week, as traders decided to make good with their gains and sell. The Dow, virtually unmoved last week, lost over 150 points in trading this week. The Nasdaq and the S&P also took huge losses. For 2005, the Dow was down .61% from 2004. The Nasdaq was up 1.37%, and the S&P up by 6.13%. See, you don't have to spend time looking at the charts, day-by-day! This is the perfect compromise for the casual stocks observer; just wait for a weekly report of how the markets did, and that's all the looking you have to do! Here now is your Stocks 7/52 report: