NEW YORK: US blue-chip stocks ended a touch ahead on Friday but the Nasdaq closed at a 2005 low, capping a choppy session as the long-awaited rebalancing of the Standard & Poor's index was combined with quarterly options expiration.
Meanwhile, investors worried about oil prices as crude nudged higher, while declines in telecom shares weighed on the Nasdaq after RadioShack Corp warned of slowing cell-phone sales.
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