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US STOCKS-Wall Street slips after Cisco's gloomy outlook

Published 14/11/2019, 20:30
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* Cisco top drag on all three indexes after disappointing

forecast

* Walmart posts strong third-quarter earnings, raises

outlook

* Dillard's shares jump after quarterly report

* Indexes down: Dow 0.13%, S&P 0.05%, Nasdaq 0.15%

(Updates to late afternoon)

By Lewis Krauskopf

Nov 14 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes slipped from

near record levels on Thursday, as a dour forecast from tech

stalwart Cisco Systems raised fresh questions about the global

economy's health and overshadowed a strong report from big box

retailer Walmart.

Cisco CSCO.O shares tumbled 7.8% after the network gear

maker forecast second-quarter revenue and profit below

expectations as increasing global economic uncertainties kept

clients away from spending more on its routers and switches.

Cisco's share decline weighed the most on the major indexes

and helped drag the technology sector .SPLRCT down 0.3%.

In contrast, Walmart WMT.N raised its annual outlook and

the world's largest retailer posted better-than-expected

earnings, comparable sales and e-commerce growth in its largest

market during the third quarter. Walmart shares fell 0.8% after hitting a record high earlier

in the session, but the S&P 500 retail .SPXRT and consumer

discretionary .SPLRCD indexes were higher after company's

report.

“We have on display this front-end of the economy, the U.S.

consumer, that remains resilient and remains in a healthy place

in front of a very key holiday spending timeframe for the

economy," said Margaret Reid, senior portfolio manager at The

Private Bank at Union Bank in San Francisco.

That compares, Reid said, to "the back-end of the economy

that still seems to be plagued and weighed by U.S.-China trade

and global economic and political volatility."

The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 36.93 points,

or 0.13%, to 27,746.66, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 1.41 points, or

0.05%, to 3,092.63 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped

12.35 points, or 0.15%, to 8,469.76.

Stocks have recently run to all-time highs, with the Dow and

the S&P 500 posting record closing levels on Wednesday, helped

by the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts, third-quarter

earnings topping low expectations and signs the economy may be

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