US STOCKS-Wall St flat on Korea worries, GDP data

                                
  
                                
 * Sinking Korean ship worries investors
                                
 * EU leaders agree on safety net for Greece
                                
 * Q4 GDP revised lower, profits slow
                                
 * Dow up 0.1 pct, S&P off 0.01 pct, Nasdaq down 0.2 pct
                                
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 (Updates to afternoon trading, changes byline)
                                
 By Ryan Vlastelica
                                
 NEW YORK, March 26 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were little
changed  on Friday on geopolitical worries after the sinking
of a South Korean naval ship and after a final reading on
fourth-quarter gross domestic product was revised lower.
                                
 Stocks initially rose after European Union leaders said
they had agreed on a standby aid package for Greece, and after
better-than-expected March consumer sentiment data.
                                
 News of the ship sinking hit sentiment, analysts said,
even though South Korea's government said it was not clear if
North Korea was involved in the incident. For details, see
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 "With details still unclear about South Korea and the GDP
number getting revised downward, it's no wonder that the
market sold off a little," said Michael Pento, senior market
strategist at Delta Global Advisors in Huntington Beach,
California.
                                
 The Nasdaq felt the weight of Oracle Corp <ORCL.O>, which
fell from a nine-year high a day after reporting quarterly
results that beat expectations. The stock slid 2 percent to
$25.53, while software bellwether Microsoft <MSFT.O> dropped 1
percent to $29.72.[ID:nN26111144]
                                
 The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> was up 8.62
points, or 0.08 percent, at 10,849.83. The Standard & Poor's
500 Index <.SPX> was down just 0.15 of a point, or 0.01
percent, at 1,165.58. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> was
down 4.73 points, or 0.20 percent, at 2,392.68.
                                
 Euro-zone leaders unveiled a deal late Thursday in which
Athens would receive coordinated bilateral loans from other
euro-zone countries and the International Monetary Fund if it
faced severe difficulties. [ID:nLDE62P0J3]
                                
 The euro-zone agreement relieved uncertainty about the
European Union dealing with the problem, which has weighed on
equities in recent weeks.
                                
 Earlier on Friday, the Commerce Department said gross
domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 5.6 percent in
the fourth quarter, instead of 5.9 percent, as it previously
estimated and as analysts had been expecting.
                                
 Separately, the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's
Surveys of Consumers consumer sentiment index came in at a
final March reading of 73.6, above expectations, but unchanged
from February. [ID:nN26140498]
                                
 Chevron <CVX.N>, up 0.8 percent at $74,38, supported the
Dow industrials.
                                
 Apple Inc <AAPL.O> rose 1.6 percent to $230.32 and limited
the Nasdaq's decline after Credit Suisse raised its price
target on the stock by $25 to $300, citing strength in the
tech company's iPhone unit. [ID:nSGE62P0EQ]
                                
 Another upside influence was RadioShack <RSH.N>, which
gained after a report that it was exploring alternatives
including a share buyback or a possible sale of the U.S.
electronics retailer that could net more than $3 billion. The
stock jumped 8.3 percent to $23.61. [ID:nN26174157]
 (Editing by Jan Paschal)