Stocks end with weekly losses first week in three

NEW YORK (MarketWatch)
U.S. stocks finished nearly unchanged on Friday to give the benchmark indexes their first weekly drop for September
"After having two explosive weeks to the upside, where the S&P 500 was up 3.5%, it's a huge victory to come out this week virtually flat in the face of the concerns we have: the Middle East, the fiscal cliff and more bad news than good in the economic data stream," said Art Hogan, equity strategist at Lazard Capital Markets
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 17 points, or 0.1%, to 13,579.93
The S&P 500 index shed 0.1 point to 1,460.16
The Nasdaq Composite retained a 4-point, or 0.1%, rise at 3,179.96