Smaller banks fell harder, as Hope Bancorp dropped 67 cents, or 3.7 percent, to $17.48<br />and First Financial Bancorp sank 75 cents, or 2.9 percent to $25.05.<br />Technology companies continued to soar while airlines slumped as investors worried<br />that the government could expand a ban on laptops in passenger cabins during international flights, which could affect business travel.<br />E-commerce and payment services company First Data said it will buy payment processing<br />company CardConnect for $15 a share in cash, or about $468 million.<br />On Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said that ban might be expanded to all international flights to and from the U. S.<br />Delta Air Lines lost $1.74, or 3.4 percent, to $49.06 and United Continental slid $2, or 2.5 percent, to $79.25.<br />Brent crude, the international standard, fell 45 cents to $51.84 a barrel in London.<br />Atwood rose $1.96, or 24.3 percent, to $10.04 while U. K.-based Ensco lost 34 cents, or 5.1 percent, to $6.36.<br />Energy companies fell to their lowest prices in a year.
