Stocks Slip As Worries Grow Over Q1 Earnings

This year’s Q1 earnings season kicked off in a bad way—stocks slipped as people nervously await what they expect will be bad news.

Major indexes reversed gains on Monday—the Dow industrials rose 155 points before falling 0.1% to finish in the red, the S&P 500 slipped 0.3% and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.4%, the Wall Street Journal reports.

First in line in what many expect will be a string of bad news was Alcoa—its shares fell after the aluminum maker announced its Q1 earnings declined 92%.

Analysts expect earnings for S&P 500 companies to shrink 8.5% from a year earlier, with the worst results expected for the energy sector. [WSJ]

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