Wall Street’s blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 249.04 points, or 0.51%, on Monday to 48,461.93, pulling back in thin year-end trading after the benchmark hit a record closing high last week. The S&P 500 lost 0.35% and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.50% as heavyweight technology shares retreated, with Tesla sliding 3.3%, Nvidia down 1.2% and Palantir off 2.4%. Materials weakened as silver and gold slipped from recent records, while energy stocks gained with oil rising; DigitalBridge jumped 9.6% on SoftBank’s planned $4 billion acquisition, and investors next turn to Fed minutes and weekly jobless claims in a holiday-shortened week. Reuters
