THE MARKETS

Dow Jones industrial average down 8.09 points, closing at 3,776.48 . . . N.Y.S.E.'s composite index rose 0.15 to 256.40 . . . NASDAQ stock gained 6.57 to 742.08 . . . American Stock Exchange up 1.28 to 444.94 . . . Gold fell $0.60 to $377.10 on the Commodity Exchange in New York . . . The 30-year Treasury bond closed with a yield of 7.40 percent, up from 7.36 late Tuesday.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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