Stock market today: Stocks mixed ahead of key inflation data

Stocks opened higher on Monday but quickly turned choppy as investors looked ahead to a week full of inflation updates. Today’s economic calendar was, however, relatively quiet, leading market participants to look at more single-issue stocks. Among the most important, Nvidia (NVDA) continued to jump and Starbucks (SBUX) has been the target of not one, but two activist investors.

at the end, Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4% to 39,357. The S&P 500 scored a fractional gain at 5,344, while tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite added 0.2% to 16,780 on strength in a number of semiconductor stocks.