S&P 500 Equal Weight Gains, Tech Chips Pressure Nasdaq After Weak Jobs Data
Stocks in the U.S. were mixed at midday Wednesday. Indexes started out slow, but later action in ETFs pointed to strength under the surface—average names outperformed big tech stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 65.31 points, or 0.1%, to 52,262.87 just after 10 a.m. EDT. The S&P 500 dropped 19.85 points, or 0.3%, at 7,479.82, while the Nasdaq Composite fell 141.90 points, or 0.5%, to 26,073.29, according to Reuters. On the NYSE, advancers outpaced decliners 1.2-to-1. On Nasdaq the ratio was 1.35-to-1.