us stocks finished lower on thursday for the second day in a row as minneapolis federal reserve bank president neel kashkari played down the odds of the fed pausing its interestrate hikes while investors awaited an update on the state of the us labor market due out friday the sp 500 spx finished down 3876 points or 1 at 374452 the dow jones industrial average djia retreated 34693 points or 12 to 2992694 while the nasdaq composite comp fell 7533 points or 07 to 1107331