NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks were mixed in quiet trading Monday, with blue chip and tech shares rising only modestly despite lower oil prices and several mergers and acquisitions, including Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.'s $1.5 billion bid for several candy brands from Kraft Foods Inc.
The pullback in energy prices and pickup in M&A activity were encouraging to analysts, who were not distressed by the day's lackluster trading.
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