THE MARKETS

Dow Jones industrial average down 5.38 points, closing at 3,831.75 . . . N.Y.S.E.'s composite index lost 0.71, to 253.81. . . NASDAQ stock slipped 3.04, to 757.40 . . . American Stock Exchange rose 0.32, to 455.23 . . . Gold gained $0.70, to $396.10 on the Commodity Exchange in New York . . . The 30-year Treasury bond closed with a yield of 7.78 percent, even with late Thursday.

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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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