Dow Ends Day Down 53

S&P 500 also slips, Nasdaq edges up
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Aug 26, 2016 3:16 PM CDT
Dow Ends Day Down 53
John McNierney, right, trading GE stock for Citadel Securities, updates John Panin, left, and Greg Rowe, second left, with the stock's price at the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, July 22, 2016.   (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Stocks ended mostly lower on Wall Street, giving up a modest gain from earlier in the day after Fed Chair Janet Yellen gave an upbeat assessment of the economy, the AP reports. Yellen, speaking at a conference in Wyoming on Friday, said the case for raising interest rates has strengthened given improvements in the economy. Phone companies and utilities, which would suffer if interest rates rose and investors looked elsewhere for income, fell more than the rest of the market. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 53 points, or 0.3%, to 18,395. The Standard & Poor's 500 index slipped 3 points, or 0.2%, to 2,169. The Nasdaq edged up 6 points, or 0.1%, to 5,218. (More Dow Jones stories.)

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