Stocks were choppy Thursday as market participants weighed growing tensions between the U.S. and Iran and the latest batch of corporate earnings reports. Weakness in financial and tech stocks also kept pressure on the main indexes, with all three ending the day in the red.
At the close, the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.5% at 49,395, the broader S&P 500 was 0.3% lower at 6,861, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was off 0.3% at 22,682.
