Wall Street opens mixed as holiday-shortened week starts
Wall Street's main indexes were mixed at the start of a holiday-shortened week on Monday, after a stopgap government funding bill averted a partial shutdown and investors braced for a slower pace of rate cuts from the U.S. central bank next year. At 09:45 am ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 132.48 points, or 0.32%, to 42,704.92, the S&P 500 gained 1.04 points, or 0.01%, to 5,931.36, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 57.63 points, or 0.31%, to 19,630.23. Most heavyweight megacap and growth stocks gained, with Nvidia adding 1.6% and Meta Platforms up 1.4%, buoying the S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq.