Stocks fall in final hour; another bad day for oil

Stocks fall in final hour; another bad day for oil


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Stocks sank in the final hour of trading Wednesday to finish with moderate losses. The Nasdaq fell 0.8%, while the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 0.7% each. The


small-cap Russell 2000 tumbled 0.9% in the stock market today. Volume was lower on both the NYSE and Nasdaq exchange, according to preliminary data. Among Dow stocks, one…