Mart declined after oil jumped to its record high. Home Depot fell 1.12 percent to $39.75. Wal-Mart dropped 0.39 percent to $48.74. Shares of Boeing Co. fell after Air Canada, a unit of ACE Aviation Holdings Inc., said it canceled a $6 billion order from the Dow component company. Boeing shares were off 1.3 percent at $63.72. EBay Inc. shares were down 3.1 percent at $36.89 on a Wall Street Journal report that Google Inc. may offer an "online wallet" service that rivals eBay's PayPal. Google shares were down 1.3 percent at $276.74. Shares of Cablevision Systems Corp. rallied 22.1 percent to $32.80, after the Dolan family, which owns 71 percent of the company's voting shares, made a $7.9 billion bid to take the enterprise private. A key gauge on the future direction of the U.S. economy dropped 0.5 percent last month, resuming a slide that began in January after a standstill in April, the New York-based Conference Board said. Wall Street economists had expected a decline of 0.3 percent. --SP 2343 Local Time 2043 GMT
