Stocks remained higher the board on Monday as investors continued to wade through the fallout from Fed Chair Jay Powell's speech on Friday and braced for key inflation and jobs data due out this coming Thursday and Friday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) each climbed 0.4%, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose 0.3%.

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