How The Major Stock Indexes Fared On Tuesday

The Associated Press

Investors sidestepped some of their doubts about the economy and bought energy and industrial stocks as commodity prices rose. Stocks ended back-and-forth trading mostly higher Tuesday as a spike in the price of gold and corporate dealmaking extended an advance from Monday.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 17.53, or 0.2 percent, to 9,771.91.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 2.53, or 0.2 percent, to 1,045.41.

The Nasdaq composite index rose 8.12, or 0.4 percent, to 2,057.32.

For the week:

The Dow is up 59.18 or 0.6 percent

The S&P is up 9.22 or 0.9 percent

The Nasdaq is up 12.21 or 0.6 percent

For the year:

The Dow is up 995.52, or 11.3 percent.

The S&P is up 142.16, or 15.7 percent.

The Nasdaq is up 480.29, or 30.5 percent.