Stocks turned lower Tuesday afternoon as investors monitored the latest developments in Egypt and took a cautious approach ahead of Friday's jobs report from the U.S. government. The Dow industrials fell moderately and the two other primary indexes ended little changed. The U.S. dollar fell versus the euro and the yen. Light sweet crude oil for August delivery rose $1.61, or 1.6 percent, to $99.60 a barrel after nearing $100 earlier in the session. Oil has not crossed $100 since last September. Gold futures fell slightly to below $1,242 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 42.55, or 0.3 percent, to 14,932.41. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index was little changed, falling 0.88 to 1,614.08. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index was virtually unchanged as well, dropping 1.09 to 3,433.40.
