August retail sales rose but geopolitical concerns weighed down the markets during the midday with the Dow falling 61 points to 16,987. Nasdaq lost 19 points to 4,572.
On the upside
Shares of ReWalk Robotics (Nasdaq: RWLK) surged in its market debut.
Investors snapped up shares of mobile payment processing company Net Element (Nasdaq: NETE) as the iPhone 6 Plus sells out.
Morgan Stanley affirmed its Overweight rating on 21Vianet (NYSE: VNET).
On the downside
Affimed Therapeutics (Nasdaq: AFMD) fell on its first trading day.
Profit taking weighed down shares of Energy Focus (Nasdaq: EFOI).
Health Care REIT (NYSE: HCN) priced its public offering of 15.5 million common shares at the discounted price of $63.75 per share.
In the broad market, declining issues outpaced advancers by a margin of nearly 4 to 1 on the NYSE and by nearly 7 to 3 on Nasdaq. The broader S&P 500 fell 11 points to 1986. Bitcoin slipped $2 to $470.
Geopolitical concerns weigh down markets
September 12, 2014 at 14:13 PM EDT