Investors marked the last trading day of 2005 Friday with the same conundrum they faced all year — trying to find a good reason to buy stocks and coming up short. Stocks fell to their December lows, and the Dow Jones industrials finished the year lower.With little news to spur buying, stocks fell as investors consolidated their meager profits on the year, and as a result, the Dow closed the year with a loss for the first time since 2002, though other major indexes were expected to post modest gains for 2005. The Dow fell 67.32, or 0.6%, to 10,717.50. Broader stock indicators also lost ground. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 6.13, or 0.5%, to 1248.29, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 12.84, or 0.6%, to 2205.32. The Dow lost about 0.6% for the year; the S&P 500 is up 3% — or just one-third of last year's 9% advance. And the Nasdaq is up about 1.4% in 2005....
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