Yesterday, the Dow was up 13.96 points (0.08%) at 18,100.41, the NASDAQ increased 8.72 points (0.17%) to 5,218.86, and the S&P 500 ticked up 1.64 points (0.08%) to 2,128.28. The Russell 2000 lost 6.87 points (0.54%) to finish at 1,260.22, and the Wilshire 5000 slipped 7.56 points (0.03%) to 22,413.11.

On the NYSE, 3.2 billion shares changed hands, and on the NASDAQ, 2.9 billion shares traded, with declining issues outnumbering advancing issues more than 2 to 1 on both exchanges.

The price of the 10-year Treasury note was down 8/32, increasing its yield to 2.375%. The price of the 10-year Treasury note decreased 11/32, bringing its yield up to 3.106%.

ON THIS DATE: In 1925, schoolteacher John T. Scopes was convicted of violating Tennessee’s law against teaching evolution in public schools. In 1930, the Veterans Administration of the United States was established. In 1973, the song “Soul Makossa” by the Paris-based Cameroonian artist Emmanual “Manu” Dibango was the first disco song to enter the BillBoard Top 40. In 2002, WorldCom Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. At the time it was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. In 2011, NASA’s space shuttle program completed its final, and 135th, mission, when the shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

TUESDAY TRIVIA: The first TV game show in America was “Truth or Consequences,” which started as a show on NBC Radio. Contestants had a few seconds to answer a trivia question correctly before a buzzer sounded. If the contestant could not answer the question correctly, he or she had to complete an embarrassing stunt.