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Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor. The benchmark S&P 500 closed 0.4% higher, while the tech-focused Nasdaq Composite recouped some losses © Brendan McDermid /Reuters

US stocks and bond yields rose on Monday ahead of a busy week of central bank meetings and corporate earnings reports.

Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 closed 0.4 per cent higher, led by energy and financial stocks.

The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite stock index added 0.2 per cent, recouping some of the losses suffered last week but underperforming the broader market as investors await trading updates from Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta in the coming days.

The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tends to be sensitive to changes in monetary policy, was up 0.07 percentage points to 4.91 per cent.

Read more on the day’s market moves here.

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