Rembrandt History Painting

Rembrandt History Painting
Ingres Perseus and Andromeda painting

trader pauses on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on November 13, 2000. Stocks extended their losses in early trading as disappointing earnings from Hewlett-Packard Co. and uncertainty over the outcome of the presidential race sent the Dow Jones industrial average tumbling.
Tech heavyweight Hewlett-Packard stunned Wall Street by reporting a big earnings shortfall before the market opened today and said it ended talks to buy the consulting business of PricewaterhouseCoopers.The stock of the computer and printer maker fell more than 12 percent, weighing down markets in general following last week's rout, which was spurred by a revenue warning from personal computer maker Dell Computer.HP shares slumped $5 to $34-1/8, a low unseen since April 1999, helping to pull down the Dow Jones industrial average, which was off about 167 points in afternoon trading.