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Wall Street stocks fell on Monday, falling from their records, as markets took a break from a post-election rebound ahead of the release of key inflation data later in the week.

The upswing after the US presidential election “kind of ran out of steam for a while,” said Art Hogan of B. Riley Wealth Management.

Decisive for Monday’s withdrawal were also reports that the artificial intelligence giant Nvidia is facing an anti-monopoly investigation in China. Nvidia shares fell 2.6 percent.

Such reports have implications that “affect the entire technology space,” said Victoria Fernandez of Crossmark Global Investments.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 0.5 percent at 44,401.93.

The broad-based S&P 500 fell 0.6 percent to 6,052.85, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index also fell 0.6 percent to 19,736.69.

Both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hit record highs on Friday.

Among individual companies, Interpublic Group rose 3.5 percent after reaching an agreement to acquire all shares by advertising company Omnicom.

The companies said the combination of employees and technology platforms would better position them to compete as marketers. Omnicom fell 10.3 percent.

Hershey rose 10.9 percent after reports that Mondelez had approached the company about a possible acquisition. Mondelez lost 2.3 percent.

Dow Chemical rose 1.8 percent after it said a fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management would buy a 40 percent stake in some U.S. Gulf Coast assets.

Comcast slumped 9.5 percent after an executive said at a financial conference that the broadband market was “competitive” in the fourth quarter and that hurricanes in the U.S. had exacerbated the difficulties.

This week’s calendar includes US consumer price index data for November and an ECB meeting that is expected to result in a rate cut.

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