Opening Glance: Shares of household durables mostly slip
NEW YORK—Household-durables stocks mostly fell Tuesday morning as Wall Street digested reports showing home prices plunged at the fastest rate ever in February and that the number of homes heading toward foreclosure spiked 112 percent in the first quarter.
Here's how some stocks of household-durables companies are trading:
Black & Decker Corp., down 66 cents to $68.
Whirlpool Corp., down $1.54, or 2.1 percent, to $73.73.
Snap-on Inc., up 34 cents to $60.69.
Stanley Works, down 4 cents to $49.15.
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