Wall Street limps toward its longest weekly losing streak since September Boston 25 News [Video]

NEW YORK — (AP) — Wall Street’s latest losing week looks to be coming to a relatively quiet close on Friday.

U.S. stocks are drifting in mixed trading after oil prices briefly surged overnight on worries about fighting in the Middle East.

The S&P 500 was 0.5% lower in afternoon trading and on track for its third straight losing week. That would be its longest such streak since September, before it broke out into a record-setting romp.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 207 points, or 0.6%, as of 2:01 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was down 1.6%.

In the oil market, a barrel of Brent crude was back to $87.50, up 0.5%, after briefly leaping above $90 overnight. Iranian troops fired air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site during an apparent Israeli drone attack, raising worries in the market. But crude prices pared their big gains as …