time unemployment benefits fell by 10,000 to 382,000 in the latest week. The U.S. dollar rose versus the euro but fell versus the yen. Light sweet crude oil for May delivery rose $1.41 to $110.24 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, reaching the highest level since September 2008. Gold futures rose 80 cents to a record high of $1,459.30 an ounce. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 17.26, or 0.1 percent, to 12,409.49. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 2.03, or 0.2 percent, to 1,333.51. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 3.68, or 0.1 percent, to 2,796.14.
