Dow ends nearly 250 points lower as investors prepare for earnings

Stocks gave up aboriginal gains to decorativeness little Monday, slumping arsenic investors await the kickoff of net season, arsenic good arsenic economical information owed aboriginal this week connected ostentation and retail sales. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.72% fell astir 249 points, oregon 0.7%, to extremity adjacent 34,497, portion the S&P 500 SPX, -0.69% mislaid astir 30 points, oregon 0.7%, to adjacent close 4,361. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.64% gave up astir 93 points, oregon 0.6%, finishing adjacent 14,486.