U.S. stocks closed narrowly mixed Tuesday, dragged down by a more than 3 percent decline in Apple. In U.S. economic news, import prices declined a more-than-expected 0.5 percent in October, while export prices fell 0.2 percent. Wholesale inventories rose 0.5 percent in September, the largest gain in 3 months. In international economic news, China's National Bureau of Statistics reported that the October consumer price index rose a less-than-expected 1.3 percent from a year earlier, while the producer price index fell 5.9 percent for its forty-fourth straight month of decline. The dollar traded higher against major world currencies. Light sweet crude oil for December delivery added 0.78 percent to $44.21 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while gold futures climbed 40 cents to $1,088.50 an ounce. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 31, or 0.17 percent, to 17,759. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index increased 4, or 0.18 percent, to 2,082. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index declined 12, or 0.24 percent, to 5,083.
