By mid-day, Dow Jones Industrial Average, S & P 500, and NASDAQ repeatedly moves between losses of around four-tenths of percent, and gains of similar size

U.S. stock market indexes moved back and forth between negative and positive territory in Monday's volatile trading.

By mid-day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S & P 500, and the NASDAQ had repeatedly moved between losses of around four-tenths of a percent, and gains of a similar size.

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European share prices were down by as much as one percent at the close of trading. London's Financial Times 100 index fell 58 points to end at 6,059. The CAC-40 in Paris lost 40 points to finish the day at 5,385 and the DAX index in Frankfurt fell 69 points to hit 6,535.

Earlier in Asia, Tokyo's Nikkei index fell by 3.3 percent (576 points) to a two-month low of 16,642. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong lost four percent (777 points) to end the day's trading at 18,665.

The price of gold fell more than $3, to trade at $639.36 an ounce.

The dollar is down against the yen but gained value compared to the euro.

Some information for this report was provided by Bloomberg.