U.S. stocks finished lower Friday, With the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite logging their largest weekly drops since late April, as the looming "Brexit" vote in the U.K. and lingering worries about the Federal Reserve's reluctance to raise interest rates weighed on shares. The S&P 500 shed 6.78 points, or 0.3%, to 2,071.21, with health-care and technology shares leading the index lower. The Dow industrials slid 58.96 points, or 0.3%, to 17,674.14. Merck & Co. and Apple Inc. were the two biggest decliners on the blue-chip gauge. For the Dow, it was the largest drop since mid-May. The Nasdaq Composite shed 44.58 points, or 0.9%, to 4,800.34.
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