traded oil and gold prices to fall. Light sweet crude oil for January delivery fell $1.67 to $73.80 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold for February delivery fell $28.10 to $1,141 an ounce after hitting record highs last week. The Dow Jones industrial average was virtually unchanged, rising 1.21 to 10,390.11. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 2.73, or 0.25 percent, to 1,103.25. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 4.74, or 0.2 percent, to 2,189.61. The New York Stock Exchange composite index fell 26.98 to 7,155.73. The American Stock Exchange composite index fell 4.17 to 1,788.31. And the Russell 2000 index rose 0.77 to 603.56.
