Although the Big 3 market indexes are all falling, market breadth data is very mixed, with the NYSE’s data looking bearish and the Nasdaq data looking bullish. The number of declining stocks outnumbered advancers 1,471 to 1,267 on the NYSE, but advancers topped decliners 1,527 to 1,069 on the Nasdaq. And the volume of declining stocks was 64.4% of total volume on the NYSE while the majority of volume on the Nasdaq, 55.7%, was in advancing stocks. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 165 points, or 0.7%; the S&P 500 shed 0.4%; and the Nasdaq Composite was down 0.1%, while the Russell 2000 index of small-capitalization stocks was up 0.4%.
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