Markets End the Day Lower

Stocks ended lower on Wall Street as another slide in crude oil prices pulled energy companies lower, the AP reports. Marathon Oil slumped 3.3% Tuesday. Pioneer Natural Resources dropped 2.8%. Pandora Media slumped 6.4% after the streaming music company announced it will launch an on-demand service to compete with Apple Music and Spotify. Small-company stocks fell more than the rest of the market. The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 8 points, or 0.3%, to 2,365. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 44 points, or 0.2%, to 20,837. The Nasdaq composite fell 18 points, or 0.3%, to 5,856. (More Dow Jones stories.)