Cautious Stock Market Drifts Lower In Slowest Session in Eight Weeks
NEW YORK, March 21 (AP)ÛÓThe stock market drifted through its quietest session in more than eight weeks today in a listless atmosphere that seemed to signal growing caution among investors.</br></br>The slight declines recorded by all the major indicators extended the marketÛªs losing streak to four days.</br></br>The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials declined .94 to 763.06, stretching its loss since last MondayÛªs close to 23.47 points.</br></br>Standard & Poors 500-stock index was off .22 at 83.39 and the New York Stock ExchangeÛªs composite index of more than 1,500 common issues dropped .14 to 44.26.</br></br>Brokers traced the sluggishness of the session to an evidently spreading feeling that the rally of the past three months might have exhausted itself, possibly leaving prices vulnerable to a long-expected retrenchment.