Dow Jones tags a record, then hides behind its dullest stocks
The post Dow Jones tags a record, then hides behind its dullest stocks appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The Dow Jones Industrial Average spent Tuesday arriving late to a party the rest of the market had already begun to leave. The index tagged a fresh intraday record near 53,300 at the New York open around 13:30 GMT, then handed the gains straight back as a rotation out of artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor names swept the tape. By the close it had shed more than 500 points from that high, finishing near 52,850 and down about 0.35%, which on Tuesday counted as resilience. The awkward part is that the record barely outlasted the opening auction, and it survived at all only because of the same stodgy, tech-light makeup that has made the index this year’s laggard. The Nasdaq Composite lost more than 1% and the S&P 500 roughly half that, while the Dow’s heavier weighting in healthcare, financials and consumer staples did exactly what it is built to do when the fashionable t