Wall Street limped to a downbeat end of the trading week on Friday as a sell-off in Big Tech stocks dragged the Dow Jones Industrial Index down by more than 500 points at one point during the session.

Stocks wavered in a quiet post-holiday session as mixed jobless claims data did little to alter bets on the Federal Reserve outlook.Most Read from BloombergHo Chi Minh City Opens First Metro Line After Years of DelayEquities struggled to gain traction after a rally that sent the S&P 500 to its best Christmas Eve performance since 1974,

Stocks shook off a choppy start to finish higher Monday, as Wall Street kicked off a holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 ended 0.7% higher after having been down 0.5% in the early going. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also recovered from an early slide to eke out a 0.2% gain. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite rose 1%.