Commodities Stocks drag Wall Street after Lower Oil Prices

From FT.com

Energy producers were especially weak as oil continued to fall from its recent peaks. Chevron gave up 1.2 per cent to $70.27, while ExxonMobil lost 1.4 per cent to $70.39.
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Metal producers also dropped. Copper miner Freeport-McMoRan fell 0.9 per cent to $62.55 and Nucor, the steel maker, shed 1.6 per cent to $44.54.

By midday, the benchmark S&P 500 was down 0.6 per cent at 1,022.13, while the Nasdaq Composite index was 1 per cent lower at 2,005.23.