April is off to a mixed start in stocks

April is historically the strongest month for the S&P and the NASDAQ index. On the first day of the three-month, the results were mixed with S&P was lower on the day, while the NASDAQ was higher.

The Dow Industrial Average Russell 2000 both fell as well.

The final numbers are showing:

• Dow industrial average fell -240.52 points or -0.60% at 39566.84
• S&P index fell -10.58 points were -0.20% at 5243.78
• NASDAQ index rose 17.37 points or 0.11% and 16396.83
• Russell 2000 fell -21.71 points or -1.02% to 2102.83

Some sampling of the bigger names shows:

• Nvidia unchanged
• Super Micro Computers, +$27.12 or 2.69%
• Meta Platforms +1.19%
• Apple -0.88%
• Google +3.02%
• Microsoft +0.92%
• Micron +5.51%
• Intel +0.79%
• Dell +4.85%
• Tesla -0.32%
• Broadcom +1.87%
• Chevron +0.85%
• Netflix +1.15%
• Costco -1.55%
• Home Depot – 4.06%
• United health -1.01%
• Boeing -1.69%
• Disney (ahead of its board members) -0.71%

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