Most U.S. stocks ticked higher Monday to recover some of their sharp slide from last week. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% for its first gain in three days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 55 points, or 0.

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NEW YORK — Most U.S. stocks ticked higher Monday to recover some of their sharp slide from last week. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 0.4% for its first gain in three days. The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 0.1% and the Nasdaq composite gained 0.6%.

Most U.S. stocks are drifting higher following Wall Street’s slide to end last week. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% in Monday morning trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 31

Trading on Wall Street was quietly mixed early Monday ahead of a set of highly-anticipated earnings reports from some of the nation's biggest retailers.