Streak snap

US stocks snapped a six-week decline. Yester day, the Dow Jones in dustrial average rose 42.84 points to end at 12,004.36. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index gained 3.86 points, to 1,271.50. But the Nasdaq Composite Index fell 7.22 points, to 2,616.48.

Sprint deal

Billionaire Philip Fal cone’s LightSquared Inc. reached a 15-year deal with Sprint Nextel to share network expansion costs and equipment, and to provide high-speed wireless service to the phone company.

Oil drops

US crude oil prices fell to a four-month low of under $93; the national retail average of gasoline is $3.675 per gallon.

Polygraph

Paul Ceglia, the west ern New Yorker claiming half of the holdings of Facebook Inc. co- founder Mark Zucker berg, passed a lie-detec tor test, his lawyers said in a court filing.

Google low

Shares of Google sagged to levels not seen in nine months after an investment bank sug gested search advertising growth might be slower than expected.