North American markets finished mixed Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average crossed over the 10,000-point mark, while sluggish technology shares pulled down Toronto stocks.

The Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index declined 34.99 points at 7,526.39.

Overall, seven of the TSE’s 14 sub-indexes closed lower, led by a 2.4% drop in the tech heavy industrial products sub-index

Nortel Networks continued to fade after its warning that first-quarter revenue targets may be beyond reach was followed by Scotia Capital lowering its 12-month share-price target to $13 from $17.The stock.closed at $9.15, down 52 cents, on 13.4 million shares traded.

Bombardier fell $1.05 at $14.05 on 8.1 million shares. This came after Bombardier sued DaimlerChrysler, claiming $1.4 billion over its purchase of the German multinational’s Adtranz rail-car unit.

The financial services sub-index closed moderately lower, down 0.5%. TD Bank rose 15¢ to $41.85, while Royal and Scotiabank both closed lower. Manulife slipped 12¢ to $42.98.

Gains among gold stocks and oil and gas issues managed to keep the TSE 300 from tumbling further. The gold sub-index jumped 1.8%, while the oil and gas sub-index climbed 1%.

Volume was 190 million shares, and market breadth was positive with advancers outpacing decliners 571 to 492.

The S&P/CDNX Composite Index closed up 0.12 at 1,141.01 Trading was heavy on a volume of 35.1 million shares, with 190 advances, 204 declines and 554 issues unchanged.

On Wall Street, stocks ended a choppy session mixed Thursday, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed back above the psychologically relevant 10,000 mark.

The indices opened higher as a strong quarter from Hewlett-Packard and a further reduction in jobless claims cheered investors, but the major averages turned negative within minutes of the opening bell. Stocks spent most of the rest of the session higher before pulling back in the last hour.

The Dow Jones industrial average ended up 12 points to 10,002. The Nasdaq composite index lost 16 points to 1,843, and the S&P 500 was off 2 points at 1,116.

The Canadian dollar faltered despite favourable inflation news, and was down US0.06¢ at US62.81¢.