Stocks finished mostly higher Friday as they wrapped up a quiet week of trading.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fluctuated early on but managed to eke out a small gain as telecommunications and financial stocks rose. Disney dragged down the Dow Jones industrial average after the company said ESPN lost 3 million subscribers in the last year. Oil prices slumped, dragging down energy stocks.
The Dow fell 14.90 points, or 0.1 percent, to 17,798.49. The S&P 500 picked up 1.24 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 2,090.11. The Nasdaq composite index added 11.38 points, or 0.2 percent, to 5,127.52.
Stocks didn’t have much momentum in a week of light trading. The market made its biggest weekly gain of 2015 last week, but this week the Dow fell 0.1 percent and the S&P 500 rose less than 0.1 percent.
Oil prices dropped. Benchmark U.S. crude fell $1.33 to $41.71 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, a benchmark for international oils, gave up 60 cents to $44.86 a barrel in London.
Disney fell $3.54, or 3 percent, to $115.13 — its biggest one-day loss since August. Late Wednesday, Disney disclosed that U.S. subscribers to its ESPN sports channel fell for the second year in a row, to 92 million as of Oct. 3, matching the lowest total since 2006.
