How the Dow Jones industrials and other major stock indexes fared in Monday’s trading

How the major stock indexes fared on Monday

Stocks mainly fell Monday but ended off their worst levels of the day thanks to gains in health care shares. A stronger dollar ignited a sell-off in commodities like oil and gold, which weighed on energy and material stocks. Dell Inc.’s plans to buy Perot Systems Corp. for $3.9 billion helped to lift some tech stocks but failed to raise the broader market.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 41.34, or 0.4 percent, to 9,778.86

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 3.64, or 0.3 percent, to 1,0064.66

The Nasdaq composite index rose 5.18, or 0.2 percent, to 2,138.04.

For the year:

The Dow is up 1,002.47, or 11.4 percent.

The S&P is up 161.41, or 17.9 percent.

The Nasdaq is up 561.01, or 35.6 percent.