New York Stock Exchange Week Ends With Decline
The stock market fell as Dow Jones industrials dropped 29.82 amid a light trading day during the Yom Kippur observance. The week posted its sharpest yearly drop with the Dow lower and the S&P 500 down 1 to 1049, while the Nasdaq composite gained slightly. Volume eased to 1.263 billion shares as investors awaited developments on the Ford strike and market-wide indices slipped.