US stock indexes mixed ahead of busy earnings week

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks mostly fell on Monday, and broad-market indexes inched modestly backward at the start of a busy week of corporate earnings reports and a meeting of the Federal Reserve. Technology stocks, though, added to their big gains for the year and helped push the Nasdaq composite to another record.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 lost 2.63 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,469.91 after nine of t...