Falling factory orders dampen stocks (CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Signs that domestic demand for goods and services is shrinking is kept a lid on stocks Monday, as investors wrestle with fresh evidence that the U.S. economy is slowing down. The Dow-Jones Industrial Average, which has not closed below 12,000 since December, dipped 17 to end at 12,101.23. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were largely flat on the day, closing at 1,278.08 and 2,760.01, respectively. Coming off last week's poor U.S. jobs report, investors got more bad news Monday when the Commerce Department said that orders for factory goods fell 0.6 percent in April from March. Companies placed fewer orders to U.S. factories for the second straight month and a key measure that tracks business investment plans fell, adding to evidence that the economy is weakening. How to plan for financial crises World stocks fall on dismal U.S. hiring report The government said Friday that U.S. employers added only 69,000 jobs in May, the fewest in a year and the third straight of subpar hiring. Indeed, even with the declines factory orders are well above their recession lows. Elsewhere around the world, markets also took a beating Monday as weak hiring in the U.S. sent investors fleeing from stocks and intensified fears that a global recession was in the making.