The price of crude oil jumped 3 percent today after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane near the Syrian border, and U.S. stocks managed to shake off an early slump and end slightly higher.

The heightened tensions in the Middle East, combined with a drop in a measure of consumer confidence last month, helped send travel-related stocks lower.

Cruise lines, Expedia and airline stocks all fell.

The Dow Jones industrial average edged up 19 points, or 0.1 percent, to 17,812.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose two points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,089. The Nasdaq composite inched up a fraction to 5,102.