Stock Market Starts November Trade Mixed, With Palantir A Winner; Cash Pile Grows At Warren Buffett’s Berkshire

Some indicators of mixed breadth emerged in the stock market Monday, with small caps lagging while the Nasdaq composite and the S&P 500 finished higher. The Dow industrials underperformed, with Merck (MRK) and Nike (NKE) among the losing issues. But gains for tech giants Amazon (AMZN) and Nvidia (NVDA) helped keep the blue-chip index from ending at session lows. The…