US Stocks End Bumpy Day Slightly Higher

Stocks ended another bumpy day slightly higher as gains by big technology companies helped the market erase an early plunge, the AP reports. Facebook added 3.2% and Microsoft rose 2.6% Monday. Chipmaker Qualcomm rose 2.2% after a Chinese court banned some Apple phones as part of a long-running dispute over patents. Energy companies fell as the price of crude oil dropped 3%, to give up its gains from last week. Exxon Mobil lost 1.4%. The S&P 500 rose 4 points, or 0.2%, to 2,637. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 34 points, or 0.1%, to 24,423. At one point it was down 507. The Nasdaq rose 51 points, or 0.7%, to 7,020. (More stock market stories.)