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U.S. stocks rose on Monday in choppy trading after steep losses in the previous session as easing Middle East tensions buoyed risk appetite, while investors looked ahead to an action-packed week with major tech earnings and a key inflation print. .N

At 13:49 ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was up 1.01% at 38,371.51. The S&P 500 .SPX was up 1.14% at 5,023.97 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was up 1.29% at 15,479.875.

The top three S&P 500 .PG.INX percentage gainers:
** Ford Motor Co , up 5.7%
** United Airlines Holdings , up 4.7%
** Nvidia Corp , up 4.4%

The top three S&P 500 .PL.INX percentage losers:
** Cardinal Health , down 4.6%
** Newmont Corp , down 3.5%
** Verizon Communications , down 3.4%

The top three NYSE .PG.N percentage gainers:
** BIT Mining Ltd , up 33.7%
** 1847 Holdings LLC , up 33.5%
** Altisource Asset Management Corp , up 32.4%

The top two NYSE .PL.N percentage losers:
** Destiny Tech100 DXYZ.N, down 10.8%

** Nine Energy Service NINE.N, down 9.6%

The top three Nasdaq .PG.O percentage gainers:
** Matterport , up 173.6%
** MF International Ltd , up 155.8%
** AGBA Group Holding Ltd , up 89.7%

The top three Nasdaq .PL.O percentage losers:
** Bio-Path Holdings , down 29.1%
** Top Wealth Group Holding Ltd , down 28.7%
** YY Group Holding Limited , down 25.4%

** Tesla Inc TSLA.O: down 3.0%

** Li Auto Inc LI.O: down 5.4%
BUZZ - EV stocks fall after Tesla cuts prices

** Salesforce Inc CRM.N: up 1.8%
BUZZ - Rises on abandoning Informatica deal

** Cardinal Health Inc CAH.N: down 4.6%
BUZZ - Falls on losing contracts with UnitedHealth's OptumRx

** Energy Fuels Inc UUUU.N: down 9.7%

BUZZ - Falls after deal to buy Australia-listed Base Resources

** Newmont Corp NEM.N: down 3.5%

** Barrick Gold Corp GOLD.N: down 4.0%

** Sibanye Stillwater Ltd SBSW.N: down 2.9%

** Gold Fields Ltd GFI.N: down 6.3%
BUZZ - Gold miners retreat as bullion's safe-haven appeal falls

** Vista Outdoor Inc VSTO.N: up 6.5%
BUZZ - Jumps after asking MNC Capital to increase $3 bln buyout offer

** AZZ Inc AZZ.N: up 3.0%
BUZZ - Rises after upbeat Q4 results

** Smartsheet Inc SMAR.N: up 3.2%
BUZZ - Gains after announcing stock buyback plans

** Zions Bancorporation NA ZION.O: up 4.0%
BUZZ - Rises after Q1 2025 NII forecast

** Matterport Inc MTTR.O: up 173.6%
BUZZ - Soars on $1.6 bln CoStar deal

** Corcept Therapeutics Inc CORT.O: down 1.2%
BUZZ - Falls on limited data from late-stage trial of Cushing's syndrome drug

** Humana Inc HUM.N: up 0.1%

** Cigna Group Inc CI.N: up 0.7%
BUZZ - Jefferies says Cigna's Humana buyout 'plausible' at $420/share

** Microsoft Corp MSFT.O: up 0.4%

** Oracle Corp ORCL.N: up 0.2%
BUZZ - Among potential TikTok buyers, Wedbush says

** Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc VNDA.O: down 4.5%
BUZZ - Falls as Supreme Court rejects case over sleep-drug patents

The 11 major S&P 500 sectors:

(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Pratik Jain in Bengaluru)

((Rajarshi.Roy@thomsonreuters.com))