What Happened in the Stock Market Today

Major benchmarks fell on Monday after President Trump reinstated tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Brazil and Argentina. Also, a report from the Institute for Supply Management indicated that the manufacturing sector contracted in November for the fourth straight month, further dampening sentiment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) closed down, with the real estate sector seeing the biggest losses due to rising long-term interest rates.

Data source: Yahoo! Finance.

As for individual stocks, Apache (NYSE: APA) issued an exploration update that rattled investors, and an outage at DexCom (NASDAQ: DXCM) is affecting alerts from its devices.

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