Declining oil prices and weakness in other commodities sent stocks lower today, as investors took profits and beat up the stocks that led Wall Street’s early January rally.

US stocks closed almost flat today as the day’s early declines threatened to halt the market’s January rally one day after the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 11,000 for the first time since June 2001.

US stocks closed mixed today as sagging energy prices and a strong advance by Honeywell International Inc. sent the Dow Jones industrials higher, but downgrades of Apple Computer Inc. dragged the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite lower.

Troubles in the technology sector pushed stocks lower today, with Apple Computer Inc. and a downgrade of Intel Corp. leading the market downward.

US stocks rose slightly today as crude-oil prices slid and technology stocks rose.

Surging technology shares prompted more buying on Wall Street today as investors welcomed analysts upgrades and Apple Computer Inc.’s reported talks to use Intel Corp. chips in its computers.

A Welshman was today appointed chairman of Sony, marking the first time a foreigner will head a major Japanese electronics firm and comes as the company seeks to improve results at its faltering core electronics business.

Is music something you own or something you rent? How music fans answer that question in coming months will help determine the viability of a new slate of online music services that offer to fill portable music players with an unlimited number of songs for a monthly fee.

Investors welcomed a lower-than-expected drop in wholesale prices and sent stocks higher today, ending a troubled week on Wall Street on a positive note.

It took nearly three months longer than Apple Computer Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs predicted but Apple’s iTunes Music Store has sold its 100 millionth song, the company reports.

A downgrade of the semiconductor sector sent technology shares lower on Wall Street today, but the overall stock market ended mixed as large-caps benefited from a late-day rally.

Fresh questions about the strength of the economic recovery sent stocks lower today as a disappointing report on job creation weighed heavily on investor confidence. All three major indexes lost ground for the week.

Wall Street edged higher in choppy trading today, with investors making few moves as they waited for companies to start reporting their fourth-quarter earnings this week.