MARKETS HEAD FOR FIRST MONTHLY LOSS SINCE JANUARY
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. Stocks were mixed on Wall Street as technology stocks fell and offset gains for banks and energy companies. The S&P 500 index fell 0.1 per cent as of 11:15am. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 156 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 34,956 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 0.5 per cent. Markets have had a choppy month so far and the S&P 500 is on pace to shed 1.6 per cent in September, which would mark the first monthly loss since January.