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Empresas y finanzas

Tech shares briefly lifts Nasdaq, offsets financials


    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Nasdaq briefly turned positive on Friday while the Dow and S&P 500 tumbled, as gains in tech shares including Apple and Qualcomm offset a slide in financial stocks.

    News the U.S. government was taking a large common equity stake in embattled lender Citigroup sowed more uncertainty over the fate of major banks. The KBW Bank index fell 5.4 percent.

    The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 95.49 points, or 1.33 percent, to 7,086.59. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 12.71 points, or 1.69 percent, to 740.12. The Nasdaq Composite Index shed 5.55 points, or 0.40 percent, to 1,385.92.

    (Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak)