A wobbly day of trading on Wall Street ended with a mixed finish for U.S. stock indexes Tuesday as markets stagger amid worries about a possible recession.
The volatile trading comes a day after a broad sell-off sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average into a bear market, joining other major U.S. indexes.
The S&P 500 slipped 0.2 percent, its sixth consecutive loss. The benchmark index had been up 1.7 percent in the early going before a midafternoon pullback. The Dow fell 0.4 percent, while the Nasdaq composite wound up with a 0.2 percent gain.
Major indexes remain in an extended slump. With just a few days left in September, stocks are heading for another losing month as markets fear that the higher interest rates being used to fight inflation could knock the economy into a recession….