U.S. Markets: Stocks declined sharply last week amid much higher volatility and trading volumes. Large caps held up marginally better than mid-cap and small-cap shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed over 1000 points last week closing at 29,983 – a decline of 3.3%. The technology-heavy NASDAQ Composite gave up most of last week’s gains finishing down -3.5%. By market cap, the large cap S&P 500 fell -3.3%, while the mid-cap S&P 400 and small-cap Russell 2000 retreated -5.0% and -4.4% respectively.