What Happened in the Stock Market Today

Major benchmarks drifted between gains and losses on light volume Monday as investors looked forward to third-quarter earnings reports starting in earnest tomorrow. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) closed down modestly. Materials and utility stocks were particularly weak, but home construction and biotechnology shares moved up.

Data source: Yahoo! Finance.

Aa for individual stocks, one analyst cut his price target for Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB), adding to woes for investors in the marijuana industry, and AECOM (NYSE: ACM) rose after announcing details of a spinoff.

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