Stock Market Today: Wall Street Slips, and Its Best Week Since March Comes to a Quiet Close
NEW YORK—Wall Street closed out its best week since March with a quiet finish on Friday, and stocks drifted to modest losses.
The S&P 500 fell 16.25 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,409.59 after wobbling through the day. It still closed out a fifth straight winning week for its longest such streak since November 2021, and it remains close to its highest level since April 2022.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 108.94, or 0.3 percent, to 34,299.12, and the Nasdaq composite fell 93.25, or 0.7 percent, to 13,689.57.
Humana dropped 3.9 percent for one of the S&P 500’s sharpest losses after becoming the latest health insurer to warn about rising costs because of pent-up demand for medical services. Health insurance giant UnitedHealth issued a similar warning earlier in the week….