Mid-Day Market Update: Stocks Pare Losses, Navistar Drops On Q2 Results (NAV)

Midway through trading Tuesday, the Dow traded down 0.01 percent to 15,237.32 while the NASDAQ dropped 0.27 percent to 3,464.43. The S&P also fell, declining 0.25 percent to 1,638.68.

Lululemon Athletica

announced the resignation of its Chief Executive Christine Day. The company also posted upbeat quarterly results. Lululemon's first-quarter earnings rose to $47.3 million, or $0.32 per share, from $46.6 million, or $0.32 per share, in the year-ago quarter. Its revenue gained 21% to $345.8 million from 285.7 million. However, analysts were expecting earnings of $0.30 per share on revenue of $341.4 million.

Dole Food Company

shot up 21.37 percent to $12.38 on CEO bid for remaining shares. Shares of Catamaran

got a boost, shooting up 11.04 percent to $54.03 after Cigna

entered into a 10-year agreement with Catamaran. Questcor Pharmaceuticals

was also up, gaining 23.15 percent to $45.21 after the company acquired rights to develop Synacthen®.

Lululemon Athletica

was down, falling 16.82 percent to $68.44 after the company announced the resignation of its Chief Executive Christine Day. Shares of Navistar International

were down 8.04 percent to $31.55 on Q2 results. Crosstex Energy LP

shares tumbled 4.89 percent to $20.06 after the company announced public offering of 6 million common units.

In commodity news, oil traded down 0.86 percent to $94.95, while gold traded down 0.71 percent to $1,376.10. Silver traded down 1.35 percent Tuesday to $21.63, while copper fell 1.50 percent to $3.19.

European shares were lower today. The Spanish Ibex Index fell 2.03 percent and the Italian FTSE MIB Index dropped 2.01 percent. Meanwhile, the German DAX dipped 1.41 percent and the French CAC 40 fell 1.27 percent while U.K. shares tumbled 1.42 percent.

The NFIB small-business optimism index surged 2.3 points to 94.4 in May. The ICSC/Goldman Sachs Retail Chain Store Sales Index fell 2.7% in the latest week ended Saturday versus the prior week. The Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index increased 0.5% in the first two weeks of May versus April. US wholesale inventories rose 0.20% to $504.8 billion in April, versus a revised 0.3% gain in March.