S&P 500 Index Gains After Recent Selloff; Energy Stocks Fall
(Reuters) - The benchmark U. S. S&P 500 stock index ended up slightly on Monday after two days of declines, though a drop in oil prices weighed on energy shares
and tensions between the United States and North Korea kept investors on edge.
The S&P 500 energy index was down 0.6 percent, leading sector declines in the S&P 500,
with U. S. crude oil prices settling down 2.4 percent, giving back last week’s gains.
While the benchmark S&P 500 index is still up 13.5 percent since last year’s U. S. election, it had fallen 2.1 percent in the last two weeks.
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