Wall Street closes mixed with oil decline, tech gains

By Ovunc Kutlu

NEW YORK (AA) - Wall Street closed mixed Wednesday as oil prices continued to tumble but tech stocks rallied.

The Dow fell 57 points to end the day at 21,410 and the S&P lost one point to 2,435.

The Nasdaq rose 45 points to finish at 6,233.

Shares of Twitter jumped more than 5 percent, while Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba gained nearly 4 percent.

Crude prices continued to plummet Wednesday after reaching their lowest level in seven months the previous day.

At the final bell, international benchmark Brent crude was down just shy of 3 percent to $44.69. The American benchmark West Texas Intermediate was off more than 2 percent, trading at $42.41.