U.S. stocks ended mixed Tuesday, as investors worried over Europe's financial future. In world markets, European stocks ended mixed, as the FTSE 100 in Britain rose 0.1 percent and the CAC 40 fell 0.6 percent. Asian markets also finished mixed, as the Shanghai Composite rose 0.1 percent and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong fell 1 percent. In European economic news, Standard & Poor's warned Monday that a plan for European banks to roll over some of Greece's debt into longer-term bonds would still be considered a default. The plan, introduced by European officials, is part of an effort to negotiate another government aid program for the debt-stricken nation by involving the private sector. In U.S. economic news, the Commerce Department said factory orders rose 0.8 percent in May, after falling 0.9 percent in April. Economists were expecting orders to rise 1 percent. The U.S. dollar rose versus the euro and versus the yen. Light sweet crude oil for August delivery rose $1.95 to $96.89 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold futures rose $30.10 to $1,512.70 an ounce. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 12.9, or 0.1 percent, to 12,569.87. Hewlett Packard and financial leaders J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America posted the biggest loses on the index. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 1.79, or 0.1 percent, to 1,337.88. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 9.74, or 0.4 percent, to 2,825.77.
