NEW YORK—Stocks were mixed in quiet trading Monday as Wall Street stays in a holding pattern ahead of a potentially big week.
The S&P 500 rose 2.78 points, or 0.1 percent, to 4,048.42 after coming off its first winning week in the last four. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 40.47, or 0.1 percent, to 33,431.44, and the Nasdaq composite slipped 13.27, or 0.1 percent, to 11,675.74.
The stock market has found some footing over the last week after a roller-coaster start to the year where a swift rise gave way to a sharp tumble. At the center of it all has been high inflation and expectations for what the Federal Reserve will do about it….