What Happened in the Stock Market Today

Stocks started out the week Monday by giving up some ground as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) both fell about a third of a percentage point.

Data source: Yahoo! Finance.

Retail stocks were under pressure today after a number of big chains were hit with analyst downgrades. The SPDR S&P Retail ETF (NYSEMKT: XRT) dropped 1.7%.

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