While you were sleeping: Valuations fluctuate

While you were sleeping: Valuations fluctuate
Margreet Dietz
By Margreet Dietz Sept. 30 (BusinessDesk) - Wall Street was mixed as investors found value in some beaten-down stocks including biotech shares, even as concern lingered about the global economic outlook. In New York trading at about 1.30pm, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.3 percent, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index eked out a 0.08 percent advance. The Nasdaq Composite Index slipped 0.1 percent.  Gains in shares of 3M and those of Johnson & Johnson, last up 1.7 percent and 1.6 percent respectively, led the Dow higher.  "...