Shares in YRC Worldwide finished several truck-lengths ahead of all the other regional stocks in trading Monday.
Closing Bell
YRC not the only gainer; Sprint, Layne close higher
March 18
The Overland Park trucking giant gained nearly 16 percent to close at $8.70, $1.18.
Other regional winners included Sprint, up 1 percent, Layne Christensen up 1.3 percent, and Compass Minerals, up .7 percent.
Among regional bank stocks, Capitol Federal fell .8 percent, Commerce dropped .3 percent, and UMB Financial closed down .7 percent.
Others on the Monday loser list included Ferrellgas Partners, down nearly 5 percent, and Cerner, off nearly 2 percent.
On Wall Street, stocks closed lower on Wall Street as investors worried that a controversial proposal to seize money from depositors in Cyprus could set off another bout of anxiety over Europe’s shared currency.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 62.05 points, or 0.4 percent, to 14,452.06 Monday. It had plunged as much as 110 points in the early going, briefly turned positive in the afternoon then fell back again in the last hour of trading.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 fell 8.60 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,552.10 The Nasdaq composite dropped 11.48 points, or 0.4 percent, to 3,237.59.
The BATS 1000 fell 95.83 points, or 0.54 percent, to close at 17,565.49.
European markets recovered most of an early slide and closed with modest losses. Yields on government bonds issued by Spain and Italy edged higher and the euro fell to a three-month low against the dollar.
The market rally that has pushed the Dow to record levels this year has been punctuated by concerns about the euro-region’s lingering debt crisis. The Dow fell 1.6 percent Feb. 25, its biggest wobble this year, after elections in Italy threw the country into political paralysis, endangering crucial economic reforms.
“Europe has got problems,” said Uri Landesman, president of Platinum Partners, a hedge fund. “You could get more stuff like this and the market isn’t priced to handle that.”
A weekend agreement between Cyprus and its European partners called for the government to raid bank accounts as part of a (euro) 15.8 billion ($20.4 billion) financial bailout, the first time in the euro zone crisis that the prospect of seizing individuals’ savings has been raised. The measures are stoking fears of bank runs in the other 16 nations that use the euro.
Cypriot authorities, facing an uproar, delayed a parliamentary vote on the seizure and ordered the country’s banks to remain closed until Thursday while they try to modify the deal to lessen the impact on small depositors.
Regional movers
Capitol Federal Financial fell 10 cents, or 0.83%, to close at $11.99.
Cerner Corp. fell $1.66, or 1.79%, to close at $91.12.
Commerce Bancshares Inc. fell 12 cents, or 0.30%, to close at $39.57.
Compass Minerals rose 50 cents, or 0.65%, to close at $77.84.
DST Systems Inc. rose 34 cents, or 0.49%, to close at $70.09.
Ferrellgas Partners L.P. fell 97 cents, or 4.89%, to close at $18.87.
Garmin Ltd. fell 20 cents, or 0.58%, to close at $34.36.
Great Plains Energy fell 1 cents, or 0.04%, to close at $22.84.
H&R Block Inc. rose 11 cents, or 0.40%, to close at $27.62.
Inergy L.P. fell 14 cents, or 0.73%, to close at $19.13.
Kansas City Life Insurance Co. fell 81 cents, or 2.06%, to close at $38.52.
Kansas City Southern rose 1 cents, or 0.01%, to close at $107.99.
Layne Christensen Co. rose 29 cents, or 1.32%, to close at $22.19.
O’Reilly Automotive Inc. rose 60 cents, or 0.58%, to close at $104.36.
Sprint Nextel Corp. rose 6 cents, or 1.03%, to close at $5.87.
UMB Financial Corp. fell 33 cents, or 0.69%, to close at $47.82.
Waddell & Reed Financial Corp. fell 12 cents, or 0.28%, to close at $43.09.
YRC Worldwide Inc. rose $1.18, or 15.69%, to close at $8.70.




