Stock market today: Wall Street drifts, and crude oil slides ahead of a frenetic week

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes are drifting Monday ahead of a week full of earnings reports from Wall Street’s most influential companies and a Federal Reserve meeting on interest rates.

The S&P 500 rose 0.2% in afternoon trading, coming off its first back-to-back weekly losses since April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 12 points, or less than 0.1%, as of 1:58 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% higher.

Oil-and-gas companies were some of the heaviest weights on the market...