Dow slips as manufacturing activity shrinks

Posted on July 02, 2012 at 16:47 PM EDT

Blue-chip stocks fall slightly after data showing that U.S. manufacturing activity dropped into contraction territory in June for the first time in three years, but the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 index finish modestly higher.

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