Wall Street Falls With Energy Shares; Tax Angst Weighs<br />NEW YORK — U. S. stocks fell on Wednesday as energy sector shares dropped for a fourth straight session, tracking crude prices, while<br />a late run-up was thwarted by concerns over the passage of a tax revamp after Republican senators were critical of the proposal.<br />S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI said after the market close they would combine telecommunication, media<br />and entertainment company shares into a single sector in an overhaul of their stock market indexes, including the benchmark S&P 500.<br />Senator Ron Johnson said he opposes his party’s Senate tax revamp proposal, the Wall Street Journal reported, while Senator Susan Collins, also a Republican, warned<br />that some middle-income taxpayers could see tax cuts wiped out by higher health insurance premiums if the repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s mandate goes through with the tax bill.
