S&P 500 Little Changed Near Record While Oil, Dollar Fall

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index was little changed, capping its longest streak of quarterly gains since 1998, as housing data beat estimates to offset a weaker-than-forecast manufacturing reading. Oil fell with the dollar.

The S&P 500 slipped less than 0.1 percent at 4 p.m. in New York. The U.S. equities benchmark rose 4.7 percent in the quarter for its sixth straight advance. The Russell 2000 Index of small companies gained 0.3 percent, pushing its biggest monthly advance since September to 5.2 percent. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index climbed 0.4 percent for its best quarter since 2012. Crude lost 0.4 in New York, and the dollar weakened to a one-month low versus the euro. Corn futures had the biggest decline in a year, while copper rose to cap its best quarter since September.