Stocks Fall Further

Stocks closed slightly lower on Wall Street after a midday rally ran out of gas, the AP reports. Health care stocks and retailers fell more than the rest of the market Friday. Foot Locker plunged 28% after reporting a weak quarter. Nike fell 4% and UnitedHealth Group fell 1%. Deere fell 6% after its third-quarter sales came up short of Wall Street estimates. Stocks are coming off their biggest one-day loss in three months. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 4 points, or 0.2%, to 2,425. The Dow Jones industrial average gave up 76 points, or 0.4%, to 21,674. The Nasdaq composite lost 5 points, or 0.1%, to 6,216. (More stock market stories.)