Stock Market Today: Energy, Industrials Lead a Slow Day for Stocks
An afternoon slide sent the major indices lower Wednesday, though the Dow's losses were minimal amid a rebound in energy and industrial stocks.
Oil prices rose sharply thanks in part to a logjam in the Suez Canal. (Really: A Panamanian container ship ran aground Tuesday, clogging the Egyptian passage through which 10% of the world's seaborne oil trade passes.)
