moderate losses vs drops of about 100 points in both indices during afternoon trade. Dow ended off about 41 points while the Nasdaq ended down a mere 11 points. S&P 500 ended down just about 2 1/2 points. Within the blue chips, financial stocks were a little soft with Citigroup down about 1/4 at $53 1/2 while GE, often include in the financials group on account of its credit arm, fell $1 3/4 to $45 1/2. Over on the Nasdaq, Cisco and Intel both weighed on the index early in the session losing $2 3/4 and $1 1.2 respectively but both ended off by just a dime or so at $36 1/2 and $32 respectively.