The US markets ended mostly higher on Monday. Optimism about the outlook for interest rates aided stocks earlier in the session. However, the mood turned a bit cautious as the day progressed with investors looking ahead to the data on consumer and producer prices, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's congressional testimony this week. Networking stocks found good support. Shares of semiconductor and hardware companies also moved higher, contributing significantly to the gains of the Nasdaq. In the stock specific developments, Nvidia gained nearly 2 percent. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares rallied 4 percent. Intel surged more than 6 percent, and Dell Technologies climbed 5 percent.
On the economic data front, a leading indicator for payroll employment in the U.S. decreased in June, extending the declining trend over the past several months, and a signaled a slowdown in payroll hiring in the second half of the year, survey data from the Conference Board showed. The Conference Board Employment Trends Index fell to 110.27 in June from a downwardly revised 111.04 in May. When the Index increases, employment is likely to grow as well, and vice versa, and turning points in the index indicate that a change in the trend of job gains or losses is about to occur in the coming months.
Nasdaq surged 50.98 points or 0.28 percent to 18,403.74 and S&P 500 was up by 5.66 points or 0.1 percent to 5,572.85, while Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 31.08 points or 0.08 percent to 39,344.79.
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