Stocks gave back some of their recent gains Thursday as a choppy day of trading on Wall Street ended with a mixed finish for the major indexes.
The S&P 500 closed 0.1 percent lower after wavering between small gains and losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.3 percent, while the Nasdaq rose 0.4 percent.
Energy stocks, the biggest gainers in the benchmark S&P 500 so far this year, were the biggest drag on the market as the price of U.S. crude oil fell below $90 per barrel for the first time since early February, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Gains in technology stocks, retailers, and elsewhere helped keep the losses in energy, health care and other sectors in check….