U.S. stocks traded lower midway through trading, with the Dow Jones index falling around 0.2% on Monday.

The Dow traded down 0.16% to 52,486.56 while the NASDAQ dipped 0.49% to 26,203.84. The S&P 500 also fell, dropping, 0.40% to 7,626.15.

Leading and Lagging Sectors

Communication services shares jumped by 2% on Monday.

In trading on Monday, information technology stocks fell by 1.5%.