us stocks ended lower monday with the dow jones industrial average snapping a sixday win streak as investors brace for the outcome of the federal reserves twoday policy meeting in a busy week for company earnings reports the dow djia closed 08 lower while the sp 500 spx fell 13 and the technologyladen nasdaq composite comp dropped 2 according to preliminary data from factset the central banks meeting wraps up wednesday with fed chair jerome powell scheduled to host a press conference on its interestrate decision that same day energy was the sp 500s worstperforming sector on monday followed by information technology