 12.05 pm: Lingering inflation concerns contribute to continuing September weakness for equities US stocks fell in noon trading as the University of Michigan consumer sentiment data for September missed estimates and continues to hover at near-decade lows. At midday, the Dow fell 191 points to 34,560, while the SP 500 eased 34 points at 4,439 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq slipped 151 points, or 1, to 15,030. 