Tepid Start

BRIEFING.COM] Stocks are off to a flat start amid mixed trading. Financials (-0.6%), healthcare (-0.5%), materials (-0.4%), and consumer staples (-0.1%) stocks are showing a bit of early weakness, while telecom (+0.9%), utilities (+0.8%), tech (+0.7%), energy (+0.6%), inustrials (+0.5%), and consumer discretionary (+0.5%) stocks show relative signs of strength.