Stocks end mixed as AI names keep Nasdaq, S&P afloat
- US equity indexes mixed, Nasdaq up 0.5%, Dow dips
- Cons disc leads S&P 500 sector gains, materials weakest
- Dollar, gold, crude inch up; bitcoin down >3%
- US 10-Year Treasury yield edges up to 4.10%
STOCKS END MIXED AS AI NAMES KEEP NASDAQ, S&P AFLOAT
The Nasdaq 
IXIC and S&P 500 
SPX advanced on Monday, buoyed by gains in Amazon 
AMZN and Nvidia 
NVDA while the Dow retreated, weighed down by UnitedHealth 
UNH and Caterpillar 
CAT.
Amazon climbed about 4% after OpenAI agreed to a seven-year, $38 billion deal to buy cloud services from the retail giant, which will give the AI company access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia graphics processors to train and run its artificial intelligence models. Nvidia gained 2.2% on the session.
In addition, U.S. President Donald Trump said Nvidia's most advanced chips will be reserved for U.S. companies and kept out of China and other countries.
On the merger front, Kenvue 
KVUE jumped more than 12% after Kimberly-Clark 
KMB agreed to buy the Tylenol maker in a deal valued at about $40 billion.
With the government shutdown on the verge of becoming the longest ever, investors as well as Federal Reserve officials have been dealing with a lack of economic data. On Monday, The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said its manufacturing PMI fell to 48.7 last month from 49.1 in September, signalling contraction.
Fed officials continued pressing competing views of where the economy stands and the risks facing it, a debate set to intensify ahead of the U.S. central bank's next policy meeting and in the absence of data.
(Chuck Mikolajczak)
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