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New York • Stocks wavered between small gains and losses in early trading as a summer slowdown continues on Wall Street.
Hershey slumped 11 percent and Mondelez rose 4 percent in early trading Tuesday after Mondelez, which makes Oreo cookies and other products, said it would no longer pursue a combination with Hershey.
Energy companies were moving slightly higher as the price of crude oil rose. Exxon Mobil gained 0.5 percent.
At 7:35 a.m. Mountain time, the Dow Jones industrial average slipped 18 points, or 0.1 percent, to 18,484. The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost a point to 2,178. The Nasdaq composite was little changed at 5,232.
Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.57 percent.