Arturo Di Modica's "Charging Bull" replicas for sale on a street vendor's table outside the New York Stock Exchange on April 24, 2018.. The US stock market opens at 9:30 am on Monday, October 22, 2018. (Photo: AP)

Major US stock indexes were mostly lower in midday trading as losses in banks and health care companies outweighed gains elsewhere.

Bank of America gave up 1.8 percent Monday while UnitedHealth, the country’s biggest insurer, fell 1.4 percent.

Energy companies also fell along with the price of crude oil, and technology companies rebounded after an early tumble.

Smaller companies were doing better than the rest of the market.

Toy makers slumped after Hasbro’s latest quarterly results disappointed investors. Hasbro fell 5.3 percent.

The S&P 500 index fell 6 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,761

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 117 points, or 0.5 percent, to 25,326. The Nasdaq composite added 39 points, or 0.5 percent, to 7,485.