US stocks decline with the closing of the tariff deadline

Wall Street's main stock indexes closed slightly lower today although not far from record levels as investors await concrete news about whether a new round of US tariffs on Chinese goods was in effect on December 15, and stocks had gotten a strong boost In pre-market trade when the Wall Street Journal said that US-China trade negotiators lay the foundation for delaying fees, but White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow later said no decision had been made, and the Dow Jones industrial average fell 27.88 points, or 0.1%. To 2788 1.72 The Standard & Poor's 500 Index also decreased by 3.44 points, or 0.11%, to 3,132.52, and the Nasdaq Composite Index fell 5.64 points, or 0.07%, to 8616.18.