    Sentence. 1: On Monday’; the Dow declined.  5.25 ,-or-0.1 percent’, at 8,983.80, having  shed_2.3 percent last week .    Sentence 2; In early trading ,, the Dow Jones  industrial average was down 39.94", or-0.4  percent’, at 8,945.50 , having slipped 3.61  points Monday .