Stocks finish flat over concerns about retail sales, oil prices

Thursday, December 27, 2007

NEW YORK -- Stocks finished largely flat Wednesday as investors returned from the Christmas holiday to news of weaker-than-expected retail sales. A jump in oil prices also concerned Wall Street.

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