U.S. equities fall after rallying 8 straight weeks

Wall Street shares inched lower on Monday as investors stopped buying stocks after eight successive weeks of rallying and as the U.S. mining sector equities dropped together with a notable fall in precious metals. The Dow Jones industrial average shed 0.48% to 16,008.77, the Standard & Poor's slipped 0.27% to 1,800.90 and the Nasdaq Composite Index decreased 0.36% to 4,045.26.