NEWS Desk Local
Dec 12, 20161 min
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite fell on Monday after six sessions of gains, weighed by tech sector stocks, while a rally in energy shares petered out as crude oil gains withered to less than 2 percent from nearly 6 percent earlier. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 38.11 points, or 0.19 percent, to 19,794.96, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 2.62 points, or 0.12 percent, to 2,256.91 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 31.96 points, or 0.59 percent, to 5,412.54.
(Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Nick Zieminski)