Stock market today: Honda-Nissan merger talks shake up otherwise quiet morning on Wall Street

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged lower in morning trading on Wall Street Monday at the start of a holiday-shortened week.

The S&P 500 fell 0.2%. A handful of technology companies helped cushion the widespread losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 308 points, or 0.7% as of 10:59 a.m. Eastern time. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite was mostly unchanged.

Semiconductor giant Nvidia, whose enormous valuation gives it an outsize influence on indexes, rose 1.2%. Broadcom jumped...