S&P, Nasdaq fight to hold record highs

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U.S. equity markets were mixed Monday with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite battling to hold record highs. 

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 186 points, or 0.54%, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.02% and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.59%. Both the S&P and the Nasdaq on Monday touched intraday all-time highs.

Ticker Security Last Change Change %I:DJI DOW JONES AVERAGES 34267.14 -166.70 -0.48%SP500 S&P 500 4282.89 +2.19 +0.05%I:COMP NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX 14458.258286 +97.87 +0.68%

The mixed session comes after President Biden said Sunday he would sign the $953 billion infrastructure deal reached by a bipartisan group of senators if it were to reach his desk without the separate Democrat-backed reconciliation bill that would provide funding for human infrastructure.

In stocks, big-cap technology shares led the…

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