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8A Daily News – Friday, June 29, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — When the stock market began tumbling Thursday, many people assumed the selloff had something to do with the Supreme Court rul- ing to uphold President Barack Obama's health care law. But for a lot of investors, it was the same old concerns about Europe, along with a few new wor- Stock market cuts its losses with late comeback Wall Street ries. The market fell sharply in early trading, before the high court's announcement, as investors questioned whether a European Union meeting in Brussels would yield the same results as many meetings before it — vague pledges, rather than concrete plans for what to do with struggling countries like Greece and Spain. Bank stocks also declined, in part because of a report that a trading loss at JPMorgan Chase first esti- mated at $2 billion could be as much as $9 billion. U.S. stocks still closed lower for the day, but they bounced back in the last half-hour of trading. The Dow Jones industrial aver- age closed down nearly 25 points, after falling as much as 177. explanations for the late comeback, but most seemed to focus on Europe, includ- ing rumors that the Euro- pean Central Bank would There were varying cut interest rates and that EU leaders might actually emerge from this week's meetings with a plan. Late Thursday, a top EU official said leaders had agreed to devote $149 billion to ''immediate growth mea- sures.'' vergEx Group chief market strategist, said blaming the health care ruling for the market's losses was ''a con- venient excuse.'' ''No doubt that the Nicholas Colas, Con- court's decision was disap- pointing,'' he said, ''but I really think the indecisive- ness of European policy makers at the nth summit on the same topic is the cause of the decline.'' larly low expectations. ''The first one thousand summits, I was pretty excit- ed,'' deadpanned Jeff Sica, president and chief invest- ment officer of SICA Wealth Management in Morristown, N.J. the Supreme Court ruled. Then it fell more steeply but recovered most of those losses, enading down 24.75 points at 12,602.26. 500 index dropped 2.81 points to end at 1,329.04 and the Nasdaq composite fell 25.83 points to 2,849.49. Both indexes bounced back from bigger losses. The Standard & Poor's Other traders had simi- In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average was down about 100 points around 10 a.m., just before Tehama Country Real Estate HOUSES & LAND $1K to $5K DOWN OWC 7 ACRES IN TOWN $68,000 OWC 2005 DOUBLEWIDE MFH, 1400 SF $59,000 There was disappoint- ment to be found in almost all corners of the market. The Commerce Department said the American economy expanded at a 1.9 percent annual rate in the first quar- ter, a weak pace that isn't expected to pick up. Family Dollar fell after reporting that it missed analysts' prof- it estimates. David Lefkowitz, senior equity strategist at UBS wealth management research in New York, was immune to the media frenzy around the Supreme Court ruling. He watched for news out of Europe because, he said, ''There's not much else going on.'' Health insurance companies make up only about 1 percent of the Stan- dard & Poor's 500, he said. Some critics of the new health care law say it will hurt small businesses by requiring more of them to provide insurance for employees. businesses is ''not a way to get people off the fence to hire people,'' said Rick Fier, vice president of stock trad- ing at Conifer Securities in New York. Lefkowitz disagreed. The Supreme Court was never considering whether to strike down the provision affecting employers, but only the mandate requiring individuals to buy insur- ance. So businesses should have already been expecting to take on the extra costs, he said. 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But hospital emergency rooms, which have to treat patients regardless of whether they're insured, are more likely to get paid if almost everyone they treat has insurance.