Stock Market Update

[BRIEFING.COM] The stock market is trading with a mixed to slightly negative disposition heading into the final hour of trading this week. Neither buyers nor sellers are showing much conviction, which is understandable given the potential for an escalation in the Israel-Iran conflict over the weekend when markets are closed.

Earlier, AP reported that today's meeting between European ministers for foreign affairs and their counterpart in Iran did not produce any breakthrough but that the European representatives expressed a willingness to meet again in the future.

WTI crude futures settled today up 0.4% to $73.83/bbl in an anxious trade going into the weekend.

Breadth figures show advancers and decliners roughly even at the NYSE and decliners leading advancers by a nearly 4-to-3 margin at the Nasdaq.