Most stocks closed lower as the constrictor of higher interest rates tightened its coils around Wall Street NEW YORK -- Stocks mostly slipped in mixed trading Monday as the constrictor of higher interest rates tightened its coils around Wall Street. The S & P 500 edged up by 0.34, or less than 0.1%, to 4,288.39, coming off its worst month of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 74.15 points, or 0.2%, to 33,433.35, and the Nasdaq composite rose 88.45, or 0.7%, to 13,307.77. Slumps for oil-and-gas stocks weighed on the market after crude prices gave back some of the sharp gains made since the summer. The majority of stocks fell alongside them, with more than three quarters of those within the S & P 500 sinking, but gains for Apple and other influential Big Tech stocks helped support indexes. Stocks have broadly given back 40% of their strong gains for the year since the end of July. The main reason is Wall Street’s growing acceptance that high interest rates are her...
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