Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corporation were trading up 1.62 percent and 1.44 percent off the open, respectively, early on Monday morning but began to sink slightly by midday following reports that the negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian delegations sent to Belarus won’t immediately result in any agreement between the two countries. The SPDR S&P 500, which was trading up 1.43 percent off the open at one point, retraced over 1 percent lower on the news, impacting the tech stocks negatively. Apple and Microsoft have been struggling recently, with Apple trading down over 10 percent from its Jan. 4 all-time high of $182.94 and Microsoft declining about 15 percent since reaching an all-time high of $349.67 on Nov. 22. The correction to the downside should’ve been expected: stocks don’t go up in a straight line, just as they don’t go down without retracements to the upside. Between the two stocks, both Apple …