US stocks slip as oil prices slide lower

Energy companies are tugging U.S. stocks lower at midday as the price of oil slips.

Goldman Sachs lowered its outlook for crude prices. Fading business confidence in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, also weighed on financial markets.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 29 points, or 0.2 percent, to 16,775 as of noon Eastern Time Monday.

The Nasdaq declined 13 points, or 0.3 percent, to 4,470. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index slipped seven points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,956. Energy stocks fell as oil languished around $80 a barrel in New York.

The energy sector was down 2.1 percent, the biggest decline among the 10 S&P 500 sectors.

This story was originally published October 27, 2014 at 11:20 AM with the headline "US stocks slip as oil prices slide lower."