Profit-Taking in Technology Sector, Weak Bond Market Push Prices Down
NEW YORK -- Volatility ahead of today's options expirations, profit-taking in the technology sector and a slumping bond market led to a modest pullback for small-company stocks.</br></br>Prices swung in a narrow range between positive and negative</br></br>territory as investors geared up for the "double witching" session</br></br>today.</br></br>"There's some skittishness as a result of tomorrow ," Leslie Seff, head of Nasdaq trading at Wagner Stott & Co., said yesterday. "I've seen profit-taking, and I've also seen some aggressive selling."