us stocks closed lower on wednesday for the second time in three days after a choppy session as a rally inspired by softening inflation data appeared to take a breather market strategists cited concerns about target corp’s tgt earnings for helping to weigh on equity prices wednesday the sp 500 spx finished down 3287 points or 08 to 395886 the dow jones industrial average djia was off 3922 points or 01 to 3355370 the nasdaq composite comp closed off 17475 points or 15 to 1118366