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Friday, March 01 16:00:24
U.S. stocks pared losses on Friday after data showed that the pace of growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector picked up to its fastest in more than a year and a half in February.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 50.7 points or 0.36 percent, to 14,003.79, the S and P 500 lost 6.87 points or 0.45 percent, to 1,507.81 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 18.85 points or 0.6 percent, to 3,141.34.