NEW YORK, N.Y. – Stocks fell Thursday after a mixed set of earnings reports put at least a temporary halt to the market’s record-setting run. Airlines had some of the sharpest drops on worries that falling fares will hurt their profits.
On Thursday:
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 77.80, or 0.4 per cent, to 18,517.23.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index lost 7.85 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 2,165.17.
The Nasdaq sank 16.03 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 5,073.90.
For the week:
The Dow is up 0.68 points, or less than 0.1 per cent.
The S&P 500 is up 3.43 points, or 0.2 per cent.
The Nasdaq is up 44.31 points, or 0.9 per cent.
For the year:
The Dow is up 1,092.20 points, or 6.3 per cent.
The S&P 500 is up 121.23 points, or 5.9 per cent.
The Nasdaq is up 66.49 points, or 1.3 per cent.
