Down day for the broader S&P and Nasdaq indices

It was a down day for the broader US stock indices with the NASDAQ index leading the way to the downside. The Dow 30 stocks did rise modestly. The S&P could not hold onto gains into the close and in doing so, did not close at a new all-time high.

The final numbers are showing:

• Dow industrial average was 37.81 points or 0.10% at 39043.31
• S&P index down 9.98 points or -0.19% at 5165.30
• NASDAQ index -87.88 points or -0.54% at 16177.76

The small-cap Russell 2000 did rise with a gain of 6.233 points or 0.30% at 2071.71.

Some movers higher or lower today included:

• Nvidia, -1.12%
• Super Micro Computers +2.16%
• 3M +5.44%
• Celsius, +5.55%
• Palo Alto Networks +1.89%
• Dell -3.13%
• Apple -1.21%
• Alphabet +0.93%
• Intel -4.44%. The US Defense Department canceled a $2.5 billion investment for chip manufacturing
• AMD -3.95%
• Tesla -4.53%
• Arm Holding, +1.37%
• Caterpillar +1.37%
• PayPal +4.03%
• Broadcom -2.63%
• GM +2.68%
• Micon -3.35%
• Taiwan Semiconductor -1.57%

There were fairly sizable moves in some of the major market movers in both the up and downside today.

This article was written by Greg Michalowski at www.forexlive.com.