Most stocks are trading lower even as S&P 500, Nasdaq rise toward records

Although the S&P 500 SPX, +0.53% and Nasdaq Composite COMP, +0.89% were rising toward caller records successful midday trading Monday, the banal marketplace is technically declining arsenic the bulk of stocks are trading lower. The fig of declining stocks is outnumbering advancers 1,610 to 1,418 connected the NYSE and 2,037 to 1,752 connected the Nasdaq exchange. Volume information is much mixed, however, arsenic full measurement of declining stocks represented 55.7% of full measurement connected the Big Board, portion advancing measurement made up 58.5% of full measurement connected the Nasdaq. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 climbed 0.6% and the Nasdaq Composite rallied 0.8%. The Russell 2000 RUT, -0.18% scale of tiny capitalization stocks was much reflective of marketplace breadth, arsenic it fell 0.3%.