US stocks end lower on mixed earnings

New York - Wall Street stocks finished solidly lower after a volatile session following mixed earnings that included strong results from General Motors and disappointing figures from Yahoo.

At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at 17 170.21, down 46.90 points.

The broad-based S&P 500 fell 0.58% to 2 019.01, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 0.84% to 4 840.12.

GM climbed 5.8% after third-quarter net income translated to $1.50 per share, much above the $1.19 forecast by analysts.

But Yahoo fell 5.2% as the technology company reported net income that translated to 15 cents per share, 2c cents below analyst expectations.