Stock indexes end mixed as oil price resumes a slide

NEW YORK (AP) -- Another plunge in the price of oil kept the stock market in a tight range as investors worried that a long-running collapse in crude prices was resuming.<br /> <br /> Ralph Lauren dropped 18 percent after the company reported lower earnings and slashed its sales forecast for the full year.<br /> <br /> Disney rose after reporting stronger earnings, giving a small lift to the Dow Jones industrial average.<br /> <br /> The Dow edged up six points, less than 0.1 percent, to 17,673.<br /> <br /> The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell eight points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,041. The Nasdaq shed 11 points, or 0.2 percent, to 4,716.<br /> <br /> A rebound in oil prices fizzled out as the contract for U.S. crude dropped 8 percent to $48.88 a barrel. The government reported that crude inventories jumped last week.