How the major stock indexes fared on Friday

Stocks had a fitting end to a choppy July as prices seesawed their way to a narrowly mixed finish. Dspite the turbulence, it was the market's best month in a year. Investors had an ambivalent response to the government's gross domestic product report, which showed that economic growth slowed in the April-June quarter. The Dow Jones industrial average fell almost 120 points in early trading, then ratcheted up and down until the close. The Dow ended down just a point, and the other big indexes had similarly small moves.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 1.22, or 0.01 percent, to 10,465.94.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.07, or 0.01 percent, to 1,101.60.

The Nasdaq composite index rose 3.01, or 0.1 percent, to 2,254.70.

For the week:

The Dow is up 41.32, or 0.4 percent.

The S&P is down 1.06, or 0.1 percent.

The Nasdaq is down 14.77, or 0.7 percent.

For the year:

The Dow is up 37.89, or 0.4 percent.

The S&P is down 13.50, or 1.2 percent.

The Nasdaq is down 14.45, or 0.6 percent.