U.S. Stocks Decline Amid Apple Slump as European Ministers Meet

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U.S. stocks retreated, following last week’s advance in benchmark indexes, after Apple Inc. paced a decline in technology companies and as European finance ministers met to discuss the region’s government debt crisis.

Apple, the world’s most valuable company, slumped 2.2 percent and dropped below $600 billion in market value. Facebook Inc., operator of the biggest social networking company, slid