Don Blankenship

Lifeless Markets End in Holding Pattern

FOX Business: The Power to ProsperAfter bouncing between minor gains and losses throughout the day, Wall Street landed on the fence on Monday, preserving virtually all of last week's big gains.

Today's MarketsThe Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 19.90 points, or 0.17%, to 11362.19, the Standard & Poor's 500 slid 1.59 points, 0.13%, to 1223.12 and the Nasdaq Composite added 3.46 points, or 0.13%, to 2594.92. The FOX 50 declined 1.45 points, or 0.17%, to 873.10.By closing mostly unchanged, Wall Street managed to shrug off early concerns about Europe's sovereign debt crisis that were sparked by weakness in the euro. Those worries faded a bit as the euro erased about half of its losses. Underscoring how directionless U.S. markets were on Monday, the Dow moved in a very tight range of just 41 points and on very thin volume. Last week the benchmark index surged nearly 300 points and ended at three-week highs amid mostly stronger-than-expected economic headlines and calmer European markets.Ro...

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