US stocks fell on Thursday as investors absorbed the end of the longest government shutdown in US history, weighing its impact on the economy and the path of interest rates. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) led losses with a nearly 0.8% drop, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) moved down 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) slipped 0.2%, coming off the second record close in a row for the blue-chip benchmark. President Trump signed a bill ending the record-setting 43-day US federal shutdown into ...