Stocks Struggle Ahead of Busy Fed Week: Stock Market Today

Stocks opened cautiously higher to start the week, but were mixed by the close.Monday's choppy trading likely foreshadows what we'll see throughout the week as Wall Street awaits rate-cut clues from Wednesday's release of the minutes from the July Fed meeting and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech this Friday at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.Just days after the central bank concluded its most recent policy meeting – where it left the federal funds rate unchanged – the July jobs report came i ...