US stocks wobbled and finished mostly lower Wednesday on Wall Street as technology companies, including chip-makers, dropped, the AP reports. Industrial companies were weighed down by steep losses in airlines. United Continental plunged 11% after saying it would ramp up passenger capacity to compete with lower-priced airlines. Delta fell 5% and American Airlines sank 6%. The dollar, already at three-year lows, got even weaker after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the declining dollar is good for US exporters. Gold and silver prices rose.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index slipped 1 point to 2,837. The Dow Jones industrial average added 41 points, or 0.2%, to 26,252. The Nasdaq composite fell 45 points, or 0.6%, to 7,415. Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 2.65%.
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