Tools and Appliances companies shares down at 1 p.m.

Shares of some top tools and appliances companies are down at 1 p.m.:

General Electric Co. fell $.78 or 2.7 percent, to $27.74.

Snap-On fell $.09 or .1 percent, to $148.27.

Stanley Works fell $.33 or .3 percent, to $96.17.

Whirlpool Corp. fell $1.76 or .9 percent, to $193.91.