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Google agreed to settle allegations that it systematically discriminated against 5,500 female and Asian engineering employees and applicants in pay and hiring, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday.

GameStop Corp. shares reversed course Monday, retreating from their record weekly gain, after one noted analyst said more than half of the short positions on the stock had been eliminated.

A gauge of the confidence of individual investors, colloquially referred to as “dumb money,” was breaching a level at 0.67 that SentimenTrader’s Jay Kaeppel deemed indicative of trouble for forward returns in the S&P 500 index.

The Treasury Department said Monday it expects to borrow $274 billion in the first quarter, which is $853 billion lower than previously estimated.