Stock Market Zigzags, Ends With Small Loss: Week's Loss: 40.05
NEW YORK, May 22ÛÓThe stock market zigzagged its way to a small loss today, with traders, brokers and analysts still trying to decide how much more selling is yet to come.</br></br>The market opened on a peppy note, climbing to a gain olÛ÷ more than 5 points in the Dow Jones industrial average during the first hour. Buying interestÛÓenough to force the exchangeÛªs ticker tape to run a minute behind the floor pace j ÛÓran out at that point and the DowÛªs gain was converted into | a loss of more than 8 points by ! mid-afternoon.</br></br>j A little more than an hour | before the close of the seå£&?$Hl from 16.71 million j the buyers righted them^risesous session, j again to cut the loss, but t^lining st0cks held could not muster enough	.	,	.</br></br>The hope at the moment is that the market can stop going down, spend some time repairing some of the damage and then be in position to stage a rally if and when the economic outlook becomes clearer.</br></br>As most of the averages showed, the over-all color of the market was mixed, with a downside bent. A few glamor stocks managed gains, but others kept right on sliding.