U.S. stocks ended slightly lower Monday, Orders for U.S. durable goods recorded their biggest decline in almost a year in July. In U.S. economic news, the Commerce Department said orders for durable goods—expensive manufactured items expected to last at least three years—plunged 7.3 percent last month, the biggest drop since last August and the first decline in four months. The dollar gained against the euro and the yen. Light sweet crude oil for September delivery rose to $106.26 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold futures rose to $1,402.00. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 64.05, or 0.4 percent, to 14,946.46. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 6.72, or 0.4 percent, to 1,656.78. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 0.22, or 0.01 percent, to 3,657.57.
