Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq slip, bitcoin plummets in rocky start to December

US stocks slipped on Monday but recovered from steeper earlier losses, while bitcoin's (BTC-USD) slump deepened as Wall Street's strong late-November rebound took a bumpier turn to begin December. The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) and the S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell around 0.1%, paring earlier tech-led losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) slipped around 0.3%, after the blue-chip benchmark led Wall Street indexes to a fifth day of gains on Friday. Nvidia (NVDA) stock fell 1% at the open before reversing c ...