A late burst of buying erased some of the stock market's losses, leaving indexes mixed on Wall Street at the closing bell.

The S&P 500 index of large companies managed to eke out a gain of just over a quarter of one percent, all of it coming in the last 10 minutes of trading. The narrow gain ended a four-day losing streak for the benchmark index.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average also ended about half a percent higher. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index ended lower, as did several measures of small and mid-size companies.

Treasury yields rose and crude oil prices fell.