now in its seventh week-failed. BP stock has lost more than one-third of its value since the spill, the worst such disaster in U.S. history. The U.S. dollar gained 0.5 percent versus the euro, after earlier rising to a four-year high, and fell 0.3 percent versus the yen. Light sweet crude oil for July delivery fell 49 cents to $73.48 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold rose $12.20 to $1,225.90 an ounce. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 112.61, or 1.1 percent, to 10,024.02. Hewlett-Packard announced it is cutting its total workforce by a net 3,000 jobs over the next three years as it accelerates its use of automatic data centers for business customers, and its shares gained 0.5 percent. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 18.70, or 1.7 percent, to 1,070.71. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 34.71, or 1.5 percent, to 2,222.33. Apple stock gained after the company said Monday it has sold more than 2 million iPad tablet computers.
