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6B Daily News ��� Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Stocks dip after manufacturing growth slows NEW YORK (AP) ��� The stock market got off to a slow start in April, edging lower after the Standard and Poor���s 500 index eclipsed its all-time high last week. The main catalyst was a slowdown in U.S. manufacturing growth last month. The decline in the Institute for Supply Management���s benchmark manufacturing index for March was worse than economists had forecast. Stocks started falling shortly after the report came out at 10 a.m. and stayed lower the rest of the day. The Dow Jones industrial average closed 5.69 points, or 0.04 percent, lower at 14,572.85. The Standard & Poor���s 500 index dropped 7.02 points, or 0.5 percent, to 1,562.17. Industrial companies fell 1 percent, the most in the S&P. 3M, which makes Post-it notes, industrial products and construction materials, fell 66 cents, or 0.6 percent, to $105.65. CaterpilRespecting People. Impacting Business Wall Street lar, a maker of construction and mining equipment, dropped $1.33, or 1.5 percent, to $85.64. Investors have raised their expectations for the U.S. economy as the market has climbed this year, said JJ Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist at TD Ameritrade. The Dow is up 11.2 percent in 2013, the S&P 9.5 percent. ������The numbers have to be outstanding in order to drive the market higher,������ Kinahan said. ������It���s a different mindset when we���re at these levels.������ The S&P 500 closed the first quarter at an alltime high of 1,569.19, surpassing its previous record close of 1,565.15 set on Oct. 9, 2007. The index has recaptured all of its losses from the financial crisis and the Great Recession. The Dow broke through its previous all-time high March 5. The market has risen this year because of optimism that housing is recovering and that employers and starting to hire again. Strong compa- TOM���S Call us. And get back to work. 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FD652 www.chapeloftheflowers.net ������I���d love to have some sort of a pullback here because I���d think it���s an opportunity,������ said Scott Wren, an equity strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors. ������But it doesn���t feel like we���re going to have one in the near term.������ The yield on the 10year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, fell to 1.84 percent from 1.85 percent. Markets were closed in observance of Good Friday last week. European markets were closed Monday for Easter. Among other stocks making big moves: ��� Tesla Motors jumped $6.04, or 16 percent, to $43.93 after the electric car company said sales are running ahead of schedule. 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