U.S. equities opened lower after CPI accelerated. At the open the Dow Jones
Industrial Average was down 0.15%, the S&P 500 fell 0.40% and the Nasdaq
Composite slid 0.65%. Memory and storage names led losses: SanDisk (SNDK.O) down
about 3%, SK Hynix (SKHY.O) down 3.5%, Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) down 1.7%
and Micron Technology (MU.O) down 1.9%. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index was
down 0.2%.