Dow Jones Round Up - Lower: KFT, HD, JPM

Published on Friday, 10 February 2012 12:35 Written by Christian Paolinetti

New York, February 10th (TradersHuddle.com) - The Dow Jones Industrial Average is lower trading at 12769.7, which represents -0.94% versus its previous trading session close. The blue chip index is tumbling with all of the Dow components trading lower.

Kraft (NYSE:KFT) is the Dow's top performer this morning with the stock trading at $38.6 representing -0.1% versus the previous trading session. Shares of Kraft, the maker of Velveeta cheese and Oreo cookies have defined support at $31.88 and resistance at $38.05.

Home Depot (NYSE:HD) is also among the top performers early in the trading session, trading at $45.2 representing -0.15% from its previous close. Home Depot, the home improvement retailer has calculated support and resistance levels at $38.84 and $45.50 respectively. The other top performer this morning is JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM), which is trading at $37.71 representing -0.4% from the previous trading session.

The Dow's worst performers include Alcoa (NYSE:AA) that is trading at $10.37 or -2.58% from the previous close. Shares of Alcoa, the aluminum producer have defined support at $10.10 and resistance at $10.92. Also among the worst performers we have DuPont (NYSE:DD), which is trading at $51.26 representing -1.54% from the previous trading session.

Benchmark crude for January delivery is also trading lower at $97.12 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange lower by $-0.1 from the previous trading session.

The Dow is underperfoming the S&P 500 but is pretty much equal with the NASDAQ composite. The S&P 500 is currently trading at 1341.08, which represents -0.8% from previous close, the Nasdaq on the other hand is trading at 2906.8 that represents -0.7% from previous session.