Stocks end lower, Dow falls 300 points to weather its worst week in more than 2 months

US stocks ended Friday’s choppy session with modest losses, capping the worst week for stocks since September after a report on wholesale price inflation challenged assumptions that US inflation was slowing. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.8% this week, the biggest pullback since at least the week ended Sept. 30, according to FactSet data. The blue chip index ended Friday’s session
djia,
-0.90%

Declined 305.02 points, or 0.9%, to 33,476.46. The S&P 500
SPX,
-0.73%

Shed 29.13 points, or 0.7%, to 3,934.38, capping a 3.4% weekly drop, its biggest drop since September. The Nasdaq Composite
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-0.70%

fell 77.39 points, or 0.7%, to 11,004.62.