Investors marked the last trading day of 2005 Friday with the same conundrum they faced all year – trying to find a good reason to buy stocks and coming up short. Stocks fell to their December lows, and the Dow Jones industrials finished the year with a loss.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 67.32, or 0.6 percent, to 10,717.50. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index fell 6.13, or 0.5 percent, to 1,248.29. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 12.84, or 0.6 percent, to 2,205.32.
