Stocks Down In Early Afternoon; Best Buy Sinks 9%

Stocks remained in the red early Thursday afternoon on disappointing weekly jobs data. IBD 50 stocks suffered broad-based declines, but some reversed higher. Retailers Best Buy (

) and Big Lots (

) fell hard. The S&P 500 was down 0.9% after opening 0.6% lower. The Nasdaq fell 1% and the Dow Jones industrial average 0.5%. Volume was down 6% on the Nasdaq and up slightly on the NYSE vs. the same time Wednesday. The government reported that