Stocks ended lower Friday, with major indexes booking weekly losses as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 extended a losing streak to five sessions.
Investors said uncertainty around the spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 hung over markets this week as investors also weighed the timing of the Federal Reserve's eventual tapering of its monthly bond purchases. The Dow DJIA, -0.78% fell around 272 points, or 0.8%, to close near 34,607, according to preliminary figures, while the S&P 500 SPX, -0.77% shed around 35 points, or 0.8%, to finish near 4,459. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.
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