recently made known YORK (AFP) ??” US stocks pared their losse after a heightened terror alert for US financial institutions sparked an opening decline.

recently made known YORK (AFP) ??” US stocks pared their losse after a heightened terror alert for US financial institutions sparked an opening decline.

The Dow Jone Industrial Average recoup most numerous of its early losses, and broke briefly into positive territory. The blue-chip index was down a fractional 073 point (001 percent) at 1013898 at 1510 GMT

The Nasdaq composite dropp 1215 points (064 percent) to 187521 and the broad-market Standard and Poor's 500 dipped 135 points (012 percent) to 110037

The market action came after US officials throughout the weekend cited "unusually specific" evidence of possible al-Qaeda attacks against certain first note of the scale financial sector buildings, including the novel York Stock Exchange and the International Monetary capital

"The terrorist alert, which was raised to orange at specific sites, underscores the caution usually seen upon Friday in an anything-can-happen