Most U.S. stocks ticked higher Monday to recover some of their sharp slide from last week. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.4% for its first gain in three days. The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 0.

Stock index futures were in the green on Monday, as Wall Street comes off a strong week on the back of the U.S. presidential election and the Federal Reserve's

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 55 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 0.6%. CVS Health rallied 5.4% after adding four new directors to its board. The health giant did so following discussions with a major investor,