Stocks rose slightly for a second consecutive session Monday. In U.S. economic news, factory output rose in May after a slight decline the previous month, and homebuilder sentiment improved in June but builders do not yet believe the housing market has returned to healthy levels. Light sweet crude for July delivery fell by 1 cent to $106.90 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold futures fell modestly to around $1,271 an ounce. The U.S. dollar fell versus the euro and the yen. The Dow Jones industrial average was virtually unchanged, rising 5.27 to 16,781.01. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose less than 2 points to 1,937.78, with utilities rising the most and financials the hardest hit among its 10 sectors. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 10.45, or almost 0.2 percent, to 4,321.11.
