Stock indexes end day with losses
After a day of small ups and downs, stocks closed with losses Tuesday, ending a three-day rally.
At the close on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 13.4 points, about 0.08 percent, at 17,217.1. The Standard & Poor's 500 index was off nearly 3 points, about 0.1 percent, at 2,0302.8. The Nasdaq dropped 24.5 points, about 0.5 percent, to nearly 4,881.
CRUDE ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude was down at $46.09 a barrel in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
THIS NEW HOUSE: The Commerce Department said housing starts rose 6.5 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.21 million homes. A 17 percent surge in multifamily housing, which includes apartments, accounts for nearly all of the increase.
Sarra Sounds Off, Season 3, Ep 3: Top football teams in action, fantasy update and plays of the week Gregg Sarra sounds off on the Northport and Half Hollow Hills East matchup, plus Tess Ferguson has an update on the high school fantasy football standings and Jared Vailuzzi has the plays of the week.
Sarra Sounds Off, Season 3, Ep 3: Top football teams in action, fantasy update and plays of the week Gregg Sarra sounds off on the Northport and Half Hollow Hills East matchup, plus Tess Ferguson has an update on the high school fantasy football standings and Jared Vailuzzi has the plays of the week.
