Stock market: Wall Street steady ahead of big tests later this week [Video]

NEW YORK –

U.S. stocks are holding relatively steady Monday, as markets around the world stabilize following a wild week of extreme swings.

The S&P 500 was up 0.3 per cent in morning trading after flipping earlier between small gains and losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 30 points, or 0.1 per cent, as of 10:50 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.7 per cent higher.

Many European and Asian stock markets were also relatively quiet. That’s a notable turn after last week kicked off with the worst day for Japanese stocks since the Black Monday crash of 1987, only to give way to the best day since 2022 for U.S. stocks.

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