Dow clings to gains as U.S. stocks end mostly lower Monday after

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed slightly higher Monday, clinging to gains after President Joe Biden announced that he picked Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to serve a second term. The Dow
DJIA,
+0.05%
gained less than 0.1%, while the Nasdaq Composite
COMP,
-1.26%,
a technology-heavy index viewed as sensitive to moves in interest rates, closed about 1.3% lower, and the S&P 500
SPX,
-0.32%
slipped about 0.3%, according to preliminary data from FactSet. Although the S&P 500 slipped slightly, the index’s financial sector rose more than 1%, FactSet data show. Shares of Wall Street banks rallied Monday, with Wells Fargo & Co.
WFC,
+3.11%
rising about 3% and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
GS,
+2.26%,
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPM,
+2.13%
and Morgan Stanley
MS,
+2.49%
all rising more than 2%, preliminary data from FactSet show. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note
TMUBMUSD10Y,
1.630%
rose 9 basis points to 1.625%, according to Dow Jones Market Data.