NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks were slipping Monday at the start of a quiet August day on Wall Street.

There was little data to trade on, other than a report from the Institute for Supply Management that the U.S. service sector expanded in July, helped by a rise in new orders.

It was the latest piece of data that economists and investors are puzzling through as they try to judge how well the U.S. economy is doing.

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