Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks trimmed losses as an advance in commodity and technology shares helped the market overcome most of an early drop triggered by concern Europe’s debt crisis will worsen.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index was little changed at 1,194.78 at 10:24 a.m. New York time after slumping as much as 0.6 percent.

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