Updated from 4:13 p.m. EDT
The stock market had a choppy session Wednesday, and at the end of trading blue chips closed little changed while tech stocks finished modestly positive.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.32 points at 10,216.59, and the S&P 500 fell 0.84 points to 1176.84. The Nasdaq Composite rose 9.75 points, or 0.48%, to 2047.22.
"We had a nice turnaround in the Nasdaq today," said Peter Cardillo, chief market analyst with S.W. Bach & Co. "Bottom line, I think we may be very close to a turnaround as soon as the market discounts a barrage of bad news, such as higher energy prices, higher inflation and murky fourth-quarter earnings results." ...
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