Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:42:04 GMT
U.S. equities down as Senate votes for leaving the automatic spending cuts unchanged
U.S. equities fell from their gains earlier this week, as a vote of Senate kept the automatic spending cuts of $85 billion. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index dropped 0.1% to close at 1,514.68 after earlier surging as much as 0.6%. Only five out of ten groups in the index advanced. Mylan Inc. rose 3.6% to $29.61 at its close