U.S. stocks opened slightly lower Monday before turning mixed, as investors look ahead to a week of Big Tech earnings reports for the first quarter. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA was down less than 0.1% soon after the opening bell, while the S&P 500 SPX traded about flat and the Nasdaq Composite COMP edged down 0.2%, according to FactSet data, at last check. Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOGL and Microsoft Corp. MSFT will report their results on Tuesday, followed by Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META and Amazon.com Inc. AMZNlater in the week. Last week U.S. stocks fell modestly, with the Dow snapping a four-week win streak, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
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