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 percent, to 4,288.39, coming off its worst month of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 74.15 points, or 0.2 percent, to 33,433.35, and the Nasdaq composite rose 88.45, or 0.7 percent, to 13,307.77.