Stocks slide, extending a weak start to 2014 Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- In "Bloomberg West Company News," Bloomberg's Betty Liu reports on the top technology stories of the day on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance." U.S. stocks are lower, continuing a weak start to the New Year. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 44 points, or 0.3 percent, to 16,425 Monday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell four points, or 0.3 percent, to 1,826. The Nasdaq composite fell 18 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,113. The S&P 500 has fallen three times in a row to start 2014, the weakest start to a year since 2005. The market remains near a record high. Best Buy, one of top performers in the S&P 500 last year, fell 3 percent after a competitor said it expects to report lower holiday sales. Wendy's slumped 3 percent after the stock was downgraded by analysts at Janney Capital Markets, who said sales could be weak in the fourth quarter.