Wall St. opens flat after recent decline

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks opened little changed on Monday, after two straight weeks of declines on major indexes and as the benchmark S&P 500 comes off its biggest one-day loss in about two months.

The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> rose 4.53 points, or 0.03 percent, to 17,861.31, the S&P 500 <.SPX> gained 1.66 points, or 0.08 percent, to 2,072.92 and the Nasdaq Composite <.IXIC> added 8.46 points, or 0.17 percent, to 4,935.83.

(Reporting by Ryan Vlastelica; Editing by Bernadette Baum)