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Stocks pull back a bit from last week’s records

By KEN SWEET, Associated Press
Published: November 28, 2016, 4:56pm

NEW YORK — Stocks pulled back slightly Monday, retreating from records the market set last week.

Consumer companies and banks took some of the largest losses. Small-company stocks, which have outperformed the rest of the market for weeks, gave back some of their recent gains.

The Dow Jones industrial average lost 54.24 points, or 0.3 percent, to 19,097.90. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index lost 11.63 points, or 0.5 percent, to 2,201.72 and the Nasdaq composite lost 30.11 points, or 0.6 percent, to 5,368.81.

Consumer discretionary stocks were among the hardest hit, following the closely watched post-Thanksgiving sales push.

Online retail giant Amazon fell $13.60, or 1.7 percent, to $766.77 after Citigroup analysts cut their price target on the stock, citing deep discounting by the retailer to compete during the holiday shopping season. Barnes & Noble fell 30 cents, or 2.3 percent, to $12.50 on reports the bookseller is also doing deep discounting.

Monday’s declines follow what has been a remarkable rally in November since the upset victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election. Investors have made big bets that Trump, with a Republican-led Congress, will push to deregulate energy and banking and cut taxes, which could lead to stronger economic growth.

“The economic and equity market backdrop was already improving before the election. Trump’s victory and the Republican sweep provided a catalyst for investors to ratchet up their optimism,” Bob Doll, chief equity strategist at Nuveen Asset Management, wrote in a note to investors.

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