U.S. stocks closed slightly higher Monday, as investors were taking a wait-and-see approach while the corporate earnings season got underway in earnest this week. The dollar lost ground against the euro, the pound, and the yen. Light sweet crude oil for August delivery dropped $1.14 to $106.91 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold futures gained $43.10 to $ 1,336.00 an ounce. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 1.81, or 0.01 percent, to 15,545.55. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index moved up 3.44, or 0.20 percent, to 1,695.53. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index climbed 12.78, or 0.36 percent, to 3,600.39.
