Wall Street Prices Slip For 2nd Day
NEW YORK (AP) - The stock market finished its first declining week of the new year Friday with another substantial loss at the hands of profit takers.</br></br>Losers outnumbered gainers l>y about a 2-1 margin in the daily tally of New York Slock exc hange-listed issues.</br></br>vulnerable to a setback, They said investors, holding stocks with big paper profits, are likely in such an environment to do some precuationary profit taking on any unsettling news.</br></br>The catalyst that seemed to let loose some of that built-up selling pressure was the HouseÛªs rejection late Thursday of a bill to remove price controls from natural gassoldinterstate.</br></br>Hopes that Ihe House would pass the measure sparked a sharp runup in many energy stocks earlier in the week.