US stocks are mixed and bond yields set four-year highs
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are mixed Monday morning as health care and industrial companies make gains and energy companies slip with oil prices. Bond prices continue to fall and the yield on the 10-year Treasury note is getting close to 3 percent, a milestone it hasn't reached since January 2014. Toymakers Hasbro and Mattel are lagging the rest of the market after Hasbro reported a loss and a big drop in sales as the companies dealt with the demise of Toys R Us.
KEEPING SCORE: The S&P 500 index picked up 1 point, or 0.1 percent, to 2,671 as of 9:50 a.m. Eastern time. The Dow Jones industrial average added 5 points to 24,467. The Nasdaq composite was unchanged at 7,145. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks lost 1 point, or 0.