Consumer prices fall, markets open lower

A 0.7% drop in consumer prices weighed the markets down to a lower open with the Dow losing 26 points to 18,197. Nasdaq eased a point to 4,965.

On the upside

Emulex (NYSE: ELX) introduced a new high performance 10GBASE-T Ethernet Network Adapter.

Henry Schein Medical (Nasdaq: HSIC) will offer Atossa Genetics' (Nasdaq: ATOS) FullCYTE Breast Aspirator to its customers.

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) narrowed losses for the fourth quarter.

On the downside

LKQ (Nasdaq: LKQ) reported flat fourth quarter earnings that missed expectations and named John S. Quinn to the position of chief executive officer and managing director of European Operations.

CollabRx (Nasdaq: CLRX) priced its public offering of approximately 2.36 million common shares at the discounted price of $1.27 per share.

Investors locked in profits on Biocept (Nasdaq: BIOC).

In the broad market, declining issues outpaced advancers by a margin of more than 5 to 3 on the NYSE and by nearly 9 to 7 on Nasdaq. The broader S&P 500 lost 4 points to 2109. Bitcoin eased $1 to $233.