First Horizon - S&P 500 Worst Performer

Published on Monday, 19 July 2010 11:38 Written by Christian Paolinetti

New York, July 19th (TradersHuddle.com) - The S&P 500 index is higher trading at 1067.05, which represents 0.2% versus its previous close. The broad market index is having a negative day with more than 60% of the S&P 500 components trading negative.

Apollo (NASDAQ:APOL) is the S&P 500's top performer this morning with the stock trading at $48.93 representing 7.37% versus the previous trading session. Shares of Apollo, the provider of educational programs have defined support at $41.45 and resistance at $52.31.

Washington Post (NYSE:WPO) is also among the top performers, and it is trading at $444.68 representing 4.41% from its previous close. Washington Post, the diversified education and media company publisher of the Washington Post has calculated support and resistance levels at $395.74 and $445.04 respectively. The other top performer this morning is Halliburton (NYSE:HAL), which is trading at $28.63 representing 4.05% from the previous close.

The S&P 500's worst performers include First Horizon (NYSE:FHN) that is trading at $11.21 or -4.92% from the previous close. Shares of First Horizon, the regional bank headquartered in Memphis Tennessee have defined support at $10.76 and resistance at $12.52. Also among the worst performers Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE:APC), which is trading at $45.41 representing -4.32% from the previous trading session.

Benchmark crude for August delivery is also trading higher at $76.83 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange higher by $0.82 from the previous trading session.

The S&P 500 is underperfoming the Dow Jones but is pretty much equal with the NASDAQ composite. The Dow Jones Industrial Index is currently trading at 10122.3, which represents 0.24% from previous close, the NASDAQ on the other hand is trading at 2185.87 that represents 0.31% from previous close.