* Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) gains on strong Q4 results
* General Electric (NYSE:GE) falls after J.P. Morgan cuts PT
* U.S. crude in bear territory, below $60 a barrel
* Indexes down: Dow 0.58 pct, S&P 0.74 pct, Nasdaq 1.10 pct
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By Sruthi Shankar
Nov 9 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Friday, with shares of technology, energy and industrial companies bearing the brunt of a selloff, as weak Chinese data and declines in oil prices raised concerns about global growth.
As investors shunned growth stocks, the S&P technology index .SPLRCT fell 1.6 percent, led by losses in Apple Inc AAPL.O and chipmaker Skyworks Solutions Inc SWKS.O , which fell 8.8 percent after weak forecast.
The S&P energy index .SPSY shed 1.8 percent as U.S. crude price LCOc1 entered "bear market" territory, falling more than 20 percent since early October and below $60 a barrel. O/R
Oil majors Exxon Mobil Corp (NYSE:XOM) XOM.N and Chevron Corp (NYSE:CVX) CVX.N fell more than 1 percent, while a drop in price of copper, considered an economic bellwether, led to a 4.4 percent loss in miner Freeport McMoran Inc FXC.N .
"A lot of investors look at oil prices as the general indicator of the global economy, so it being weak is not a good sign," said Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond (NS:RYMD) James in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Amid a bitter trade dispute between the Washington and Beijing, Chinese data showed producer inflation fell for the fourth straight month in October on cooling domestic demand and manufacturing activity. China report sent global stocks into a tailspin, with trade-sensitive stocks such as Boeing (NYSE:BA) Co BA.N and Caterpillar Inc (NYSE:CAT) CAT.N sliding 1 percent and 3.3 percent, respectively.
"Worries about trade war and how the slowdown in China will impact the rest of the world mean stocks appear to be more risky, so there's a typical risk-off move in markets today," said DZ Bank rates strategist Pascal Segesser.
While the Fed policymakers, as expected, left interest rates unchanged on Thursday following a two-day meeting, their policy statement signaled more rate hikes ahead, with the fourth hike this year expected in December.
Data on Friday showed U.S. producer prices rose more than expected in October and at their fastest pace in six years, fueled by a jump in costs for energy and trade services.
Prices paid by producers rose 0.6 percent, while analysts polled by Reuters had expected producer prices to rise 0.2 percent from September. 9:57 a.m. EDT the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was down 151.20 points, or 0.58 percent, at 26,040.02, the S&P 500 .SPX was down 20.80 points, or 0.74 percent, at 2,786.03 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was down 82.86 points, or 1.10 percent, at 7,448.02.
Nine of the 11 major S&P sectors were lower, with slight gains seen in the defensive real estate .SPLRCR and consumer staples .SPLRCS indexes.
General Electric GE.N fell 4.8 percent after J.P. Morgan cut price target on the stock to $6 from $10. Blizzard Inc ATVI.O dived 13.8 percent after the video game publisher forecast fourth-quarter earnings below analysts' estimates. Disney Co DIS.N , a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, rose about 3 percent after the media company reported better-than-expected results as its theme parks and Marvel movie "Ant-Man and the Wasp" attracted crowd. issues outnumbered advancers for a 2.51-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and for a 2.50-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.