U.S. blue chips were unchanged Wednesday, as investors were little swayed by a positive government report on economic growth and worried that higher oil prices will dampen corporate profits. Shares of Boeing Co. fell 2 percent, weighing on the Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500 index, after Banc of America Securities downgraded the stock to "neutral" from "buy" and lowered its price target to $53. Shares of online travel site Orbitz Inc. soared more than 30 percent after travel and real estate heavyweight Cendant Corp. agreed to buy the company for $1.25 billion. U.S. gross domestic product -- the measure of total output within the nation's borders -- expanded at a revised 3.3 percent annual rate in the April-June second quarter. That was up from a 2.8 percent rate the government estimated a month ago but still the slowest rate of GDP advance since the first quarter of 2003. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 8.70 points, or 0.09 percent, at 10,068.70. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 1 point, or 0.09 percent, at 1,109.06. The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index was up 10.88 points, or 0.58 percent, at 1,881.06. --More 1816 Local Time 1516 GMT
