Stock Market Today: Soaring Treasury Yields Keep a Lid on Stocks

The main indexes kicked off the fourth quarter on a mixed note as upheaval in the bond market continued. Stocks kicked off the new month and quarter on a relatively quiet note, even as Congress over the weekend passed a stopgap spending measure to avoid a shutdown and fund the government through mid-November. While all three benchmarks spent some time in positive territory today, rising Treasury yields and a round of hawkish commentary from several Federal Reserve officials brought them off thei