THE MARKETS

Dow Jones industrial average down 14.47 points, closing at 3837.13 . . . N.Y.S.E.'s composite index dropped 0.19, to 254.52 . . . NASDAQ stocks lost 0.27, to 760.44 . . . American Stock Exchange gained 0.14, to 454.91 . . . Gold up $1.30, to $395.40, on the Commodity Exchange in New York . . . The 30-year Treasury bond closed with a yield of 7.78 percent, down from 7.80 late Wednesday.

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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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