
Stocks opened sharply lower Monday in market participants' initial reaction to U.S. airstrikes on Iran over the weekend. However, the main indexes quickly reversed course to end the day mostly higher.
At the close, the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.2% at 48,904, while the broader S&P 500 was up 0.04% at 6,881 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was 0.4% higher at 22,748.