US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall St slides on bank jitters

NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks closed lower on
Monday, sliding after Bank of America reported an increase in
troubled loans and reignited concerns over the state of the
banking industry and the economy.

* Oracle offers to buy Sun Microsystems.

* The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 289.36
points, or 3.56 percent, to 7,841.97. The Standard & Poor's 500
Index .SPX slid 37.01 points, or 4.26 percent, to 832.59. The
Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC dropped 64.86 points, or 3.88
percent, to 1,608.21.
(Reporting by Rodrigo Campos, Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)