Coming away from dreary week, stocks fail to find a direction Monday NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. stock indexes closed pool-table flat Monday. With no government reports issued on the economy due to the Veterans Day holiday, markets were on their own -- and after a modest attempt at making gains slumped right back to the starting line. By close of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 0.31 points, off less than 0.01 percent at 12,815.08. The Nasdaq shed 0.67 points, 0.02 percent, to 2,904.26. The Standard and Poor's 500 gained 0.18 points, 0.01 percent, to 1,380.03. The bond market was closed, leaving the benchmark 10-year treasury unchanged, yielding 1.611 percent. In London, the FTSE 100 index lost 0.04 percent, 2.41 points, to 5,767.27.