The Markets
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 24.75 to 5,628.03. As an SEC investigation comes to a close, the technology-stock Nasdaq composite index fell 24.56 to 1,183.06 to end at its first close below 1,200 in more than a month. The index has lost more than five percent of its value since June 5. The NYSE's composite index fell 1.34 to 355.58; the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell 3.10 to 662.06; and the American Stock Exchange's market value index fell 1.54 to 588.99. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a margin of almost 7-to-6 on the New York Stock Exchange, with a moderate volume of 363.82 million shares as of 4 p.m. And in London, gold finished at $384.75, off $0.25.
Most Popular »
- E.T. Turns 30: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Our Favorite Extra-Terrestrial
- Nevada Ghosts: Rare Photos From an A-Bomb Test
- Temple of Doom: Scientists Discover Peruvian Tomb Filled with Mummies, Infants
- 15-Year-Old Creates Test for Pancreatic Cancer
- Before and After D-Day: Rare Color Photos
- A Diamond Jubilee
- Marilyn Monroe: Early Unpublished Photos
- 10 Dangerous Products You Might Have in Your Home
- Etan Patz: After 33 Years, an Arrest in the Disappearance of the 'Milk-Carton Boy'
- Obama Stumbles? Why the President's Right to Talk About Bain
- Researchers Probe the Potential Health Benefits of Palm Oil
- A Visit with Turkey's Controversial Religious Movement
- Feeding the Planet Without Destroying It
- Bubble on the Potomac
- Falcon's Liftoff: How a Private Firm Could Change Space Exploration
- The Fatal Flight of the Superjet 100: Why Did It Slam Into a Mountain?
- Learning That Works
- The Man Who Remade Motherhood
- Bibi's Choice
- Seoul: 10 Things to Do
More News from Our Partners
Top Stories on TIME.com
Quotes of the Day »
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.
