A late burst of buying erased some of the stock market’s losses Thursday, leaving indexes mixed on Wall Street at the closing bell.
The S&P 500 index of large companies managed to eke out a tiny gain, all of it coming in the last 10 minutes of trading. That ended a four-day losing streak for the benchmark index.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average also climbed about half a percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell, as did several measures of small and mid-size companies.
On Thursday (Sept. 1): The S&P 500 rose 11.85 points, or 0.3 percent, to 3,966.85.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 145.99 points, or 0.5 percent, to 31,656.42.
The Nasdaq fell 31.08 points, or 0.3 percent, to 11,785.13.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 21.30 points, or 1.2 percent, to 1,822.82. For the week:…