Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corporation were trading up 1.62 percent and 1.44 percent off the open, respectively, early on Monday morning but began to sink slightly by midday following reports that the negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian delegations sent to Belarus won’t immediately result in any agreement between the two countries.
The SPDR S&P 500, which was trading up 1.43 percent off the open at one point, retraced over 1 percent lower on the news, impacting the tech stocks negatively.
