NEW YORK—Stocks are off to a higher start on Wall Street Monday led by more gains in big tech companies.
The S&P 500 was up 0.8 percent. The benchmark index is coming off its eighth losing week in the last nine. The Nasdaq rose 1.2 percent and the Dow rose 0.5 percent.
Twitter fell 4 percent after Tesla CEO Elon Musk threatened to call of his deal to buy the company, saying Twitter was refusing to hand over data.
Spirit Airlines rose 2 percent after JetBlue raised its offer to buy the rival carrier, and Amazon rose 3 percent after executing a 20-for-1 stock split….