Stocks close down again, giving up early gains
Gains fade on Wall Street, giving the Dow Jones industrial average another down day
10/24/2012NEW YORK -- Stock indexes closed with slight losses today, giving up modest gains from earlier in the day.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 25 points to close at 13,077 today, a day after one of its worst drops this year.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index gave up four points to end at 1,409. The Nasdaq composite index fell nine points to 2,982.
The market began to fade after 2 p.m., when the Federal Reserve repeated its assessment that the U.S. economy still needed help to increase growth and lower unemployment.
Netflix plunged 12 percent after slashing its target for full-year subscriber growth.
About four stocks fell for every three that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was average at 3.4 billion shares.