Wall Street’s key stock indices edged lower on Thursday as crude oil prices surged following a report that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei ordered the country’s near-weapons-grade uranium not be sent abroad, dimming hopes for progress in talks between Washington and Tehran.
At the opening bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 25.5 points, or 0.05%, to 49,983.8. The S&P 500 fell 22.2 points, or 0.30%, to 7,410.78, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 126.7 points, or 0.48%, to 26,143.616.
