us stocks booked modest gains on monday after recording their worst week of the year as jitters about inflation and interest rates rattled investors the dow jones industrial average djia rose about 72 points or 02 ending near 32889 while the sp 500 spx gained about 03 and the nasdaq composite index comp closed up 06 according to preliminary factset data investors attributed the slight bounce in stocks on monday to an easing of treasury bond yields the 10year tmubmusd10y rate was at 3921 monday while the 2year tmubmusd02y was at 4791 near the highest since 2007 still a key worry to emerge has been that a robust economy causes inflation to stay high prompting the federal reserve to rely on a more “restrictive” level of interest rates for longer than previously anticipated