The Dow Jones Industrial Average regained its footing in positive territory for the year in early trade on Tuesday, as the stock market attempted to recover from a technology-fueled selloff on Monday. The Dow was up about 150 points at its higg, or 0.6%, powered by gains in the usual suspects: Boeing Co. , 3M Co. , and Caterpillar Inc. –among the blue-chip gauge’s most influential components. A rally in those shares helped the stock gauge climb 0.2% so far this year, after falling firmly in the red after the previous session’s downturn. On Monday, the broader market was rattled by concerns over how Facebook Inc. [s:FB] managed user information, which resulted in the social network’s shares suffering the worst one-day decline in about four years. Elsewhere, the S&P 500 index was up 0.3% at 2,721, while the tech-centric Nasdaq Composite Index advanced by 0.4% at 7,369. The S&P 500 was holding onto a year-to-date return of 1.8%, while the Nasdaq was up 6.8% for the first three months of 2018.
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