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Land-transportation-equipment makers also lost ground, shedding 11%. Wabash National, a designer of truck trailers, was among the decliners after the company said it closed an asset sale and a bank financing package cheap cigarettes discount.

Meanwhile, tire companies skid 9%, amid mounting concern that Asian competition is taking market share away from Cooper Tire & Rubber. For its part, Goodyear Tire & Rubber retreated, despite ratifying a contract with its biggest labor union online cigarettes.

Mid-way through the last session of trading in the month, all of the major stock averages are putting the stop on their multiple-month winning streaks dute free cigarettes.

Coming into Tuesday, the Dow had lost 35.58, or 0.4%, to 9380.24, for the month. Year-to-date, blue chips are up 12.5% cigarettes.

The S&P 500 had fallen 1.43, or 0.1%, to 1006.58, coming into Tuesday, but had gained 14.4%, so far this year.

The Nasdaq, with one session left in the month, had risen 14.11, or 0.8%, to 1824.56, and year-to-date, by 36.6%. At 1793.43 in mid-morning trading Tuesday, however, the Nasdaq also has retreated for the month online cigarettes.

Small stocks weren't able to resist September's slide. The Russell 2000 Index had lost 4.71, or 0.9%, to 492.71 in September, coming into Tuesday. Year-to- date, the Russell 2000 is up 28.6%.

The third-quarter performance, however, painted a more encouraging picture of the market's direction than did the quarter's final month, as the stock indexes managed to hold on to the gains from July and August dute free cigarettes.

Behind those gains were tax cuts, low interest rates and strong numbers on manufacturing and gross-domestic-product growth, which gave investors confidence that the economy was on the mend. The stock market also rode strong second- quarter momentum, which fueled investors' fears of missing the rally.

"The second quarter was so strong that a lot of people were afraid of missing out on the next bull market," said Bruce Bittles, chief investment strategist at R.W. Baird.  cheap cigarettes

Of the 86 industry groups, 67 advanced as investors snapped up economically- sensitive stocks, such as semiconductor issues, and moved out of defensive names, like drug makers, in the belief that the economic recovery is under way.

Of the top-performing groups in the third quarter, semiconductor stocks soared 28%, followed by metal miners, up 27%, and electric-parts and equipment makers, ahead 24%. cigarettes online

Intel, a Dow industrial and a member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index, helped both gauges reach new highs in the third quarter, as the world's largest chip maker raised its third-quarter revenue outlook in August, while a September report of rising worldwide chip sales helped the chip group advance as a whole.