NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks ended lower on Friday in the face of another soft reading on the economy, with the S&P 500 facing resistance as it flirts with its record high.
Based on the latest available data, the Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> fell 29.93 points or 0.19 percent, to end unofficially at 16,103.30. The S&P 500 <.SPX> lost 3.53 points or 0.19 percent, to finish unofficially at 1,836.25. The Nasdaq Composite <.IXIC> dropped 4.135 points or 0.10 percent, to close unofficially at 4,263.41.
For the week, the Dow slipped 0.3 percent and the S&P 500 dipped 0.1 percent, while the Nasdaq ended up 0.5 percent.
(Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch; Editing by Jan Paschal)
