After bouncing around in early trading Thursday, the stock market finally picked a direction: down.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 300 points, or 0.6%. The S&P 500 was down 0.6%. The Nasdaq Composite fell 1%.
The government shutdown entered its 37th day. Airline stocks were falling in the wake of a Federal Aviation Administration directive to reduce flight schedules starting Friday due to the shutdown.
