US STOCKS-Wall Street falls on strong dollar, consumer fears

                                

                                
 * U.S. dollar weighs on commodity-related shares
                                
 * Wal-Mart forecast sparks worry about consumer spending
                                
 * AMD shares rally after dispute with Intel settled
                                
 * Indexes down: Dow 0.9 pct; S&P 500 1 pct; Nasdaq 0.7 pct
                                
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 By Rodrigo Campos
                                
 NEW YORK, Nov 12 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell broadly on
Thursday as a stronger dollar weighed on commodity-linked
shares and a guarded outlook from Wal-Mart Stores Inc <WMT.N>
led to worries about consumer spending.
                                
 The greenback's rise helped push oil futures, which are
denominated in dollars, down by 3 percent and caused energy
shares to fall. The S&P integrated oil and gas index <.GSPOILI>
fell 1.5 percent.
                                
 Shares of Hess Corp <HES.N> were down 2.5 percent to $55.95
and Occidental Petroleum Corp <OXY.N> slipped 1.6 percent to
$81.81.
                                
 "As the S&P 500 has gone above 1,100, it has had a hard
time holding on to gains," said Quincy Krosby, market
strategist at Prudential Financial in Shelton, Connecticut.
                                
 "In order to get to the next level up, it does need a
strong catalyst, and most of the time the stronger dollar has
been a negative for the market."
                                
 The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> fell 91.98 points,
or 0.89 percent, to 10,199.28. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index
<.SPX> dropped 10.93 points, or 0.99 percent, to 1,087.58. The
Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> lost 16.13 points, or 0.74
percent, to 2,150.77.
                                
 Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, reported a higher
quarterly profit and its shares rose 0.5 percent to $53.24, but
it forecast earnings for the key holiday quarter that could
miss Wall Street's consensus estimate. For details see
[ID:nN12404234].
                                
 Concern about consumer spending weighed on the S&P retail
index <.RLX>, which fell 0.8 percent.
                                
 Helping to limit losses, Advanced Micro Systems Inc <AMD.N>
rose 21.8 percent to $6.48 after it agreed with fellow
chipmaker Intel Corp <INTC.O> to settle all outstanding legal
disputes. Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion as part of the
settlement. [ID:nN12410647].
                                
 Advanced Micro was the among the most traded stocks on the
New York Stock Exchange
                                
 Network equipment maker 3Com Corp <COMS.O> gained 31.1
percent to $7.46 after Hewlett-Packard Co <HPQ.N> said on
Wednesday it has agreed to buy the company for $2.7 billion.
[ID:nN11380741]. Hewlett-Packard shed 0.6 percent to $49.70.
                                
 Shares of Brocade Communications Systems Inc <BRCD.O> fell
12.7 percent to $8.08 after a brokerage questioned the
company's ability to gain market share after news of the deal
between Hewlett-Packard and 3Com.
                                
 Shares of insurers and banks were also among top laggards,
with the S&P financial sector index <.GSPF> down 1.8 percent.
                                
 Volume was light on the New York Stock Exchange with 1.05
billion shares changing hands, below last year's estimated
daily average of 1.49 billion. On the Nasdaq, about 2.22
billion shares traded, slightly below last year's daily average
of 2.28 billion.
                                
 Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by
a ratio of about 4 to 1, while on the Nasdaq nearly 10 stocks
fell for every three that rose.
 (Editing by Kenneth Barry)