stocks ended thursday in the red after the latest war talks between russia and ukraine broke down and us inflation clocked in at a 40year high the good news stocks rallied into the close the dow jones industrial average slid 112 points or 03 one day after the benchmark surged 2 on hopes for a quicker resolution to the war the sp 500 followed its best day of the year with a decline of 04 the nasdaq composite declined 1 all three indexes finished above their lowest levels of the day as the price of oil swung