Stocks Hit a Pothole on Rally Road; Transports Tumble

Stock indexes fell this week for the first time in the past three weeks, as weak economic news and more global troubles got in the way of the market’s bullish trajectory. Stocks weren’t down much — the Dow fell 14 points to 13,579 and the S&P 500 gave up 56 points to close at 1,460.2. [...]