While you were sleeping: Deal talk checks losses

While you were sleeping: Deal talk checks losses
Margreet Dietz
By Margreet Dietz Dec. 10 (BusinessDesk) - Shares of DuPont surged, helping to offset partially overall negative sentiment, after a Wall Street Journal report that the company was in advanced merger talks with Dow Chemical. In 12.15pm trading in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average inched 0.02 percent lower. In 12.00pm trading, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index fell 0.3 percent, whjle the Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 1 percent.  In the Dow, slides in shares of Apple and those of Nike, last trading 1.5 percent and 1.4 percent lowe...