The Markets

After a volatile session with sizable gains in oil and consumer stocks, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 12.65 to close at 5,629.77 The NYSE composite index fell 1.27 to 349.48, the Standard & Poor's 500 composite was off 3.79 at 652.00.and the Nasdaq composite was down 1.27 at 1,092.99. In Washington, the government reported Americans' productivity increased by 1.1. percent in 1995 -- the best showing since 1992. Gold was trading at $393.85, up 60 cents.

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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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