Markets Right Now: US stocks end a bumpy day slightly higher

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
4 p.m.
Stocks ended another bumpy day slightly higher as gains by big technology companies helped the market erase an early plunge.
Facebook added 3.2 percent and Microsoft rose 2.6 percent Monday.
Chipmaker Qualcomm rose 2.2 percent after a Chinese court banned some Apple phones as part of a long-running dispute over patents.
Energy companies fell as the price of crude oil dropped 3 percent, to give up its