Wall St stumbles as financials, energy shares weigh

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Friday, the day after logging their best gains in three months, as sectors that have led the rally pulled back.

Several reports pointed to a mixed economic picture on the heels of a government report that showed gross domestic product grew at its best rate in two years. Midwest area manufacturing was strong, but consumer sentiment slipped this month.

"Confidence still strikes me as shockingly low," said Jeff Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial in Boston.

"Consumers are still very pessimistic, and that is evident in individual investors' hesitancy to embrace this rally."

The Dow Jones industrial average lost 76.93 points, or 0.77 percent, to 9,885.65. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index dropped 7.86 points, or 0.74 percent, to 1,058.25. The Nasdaq Composite Index slipped 10.65 points, or 0.51 percent, to 2,086.90.

Among the biggest decliners, financials fell 2.1 percent, while energy shares lost 1.3 percent. Chevron Corp drooped 1 percent to $77.14 as quarterly profit tumbled 51 percent.

MetLife Inc dropped 5.8 percent to $34.70 after the No. 1 U.S. life insurer posted its third straight quarterly loss, while Aon Corp lost 6.2 percent to $38.60 as revenue declined. The KBW insurance index insurers was down 2.4 percent.

On the final trading day of the month, the S&P 500 is up just 0.4 percent for October. If the index is unable to hold onto the month's gains, it will snap a seven-month winning streak.

(Reporting by Leah Schnurr and Chuck Mikolajczak; editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)