The Dow Jones Industrial Average Friday afternoon was being dragged lower by shares of Nike and Home Depot, as blue chips looked to close out another downbeat week, its fourth in succession, in negative territory. Shares of Nike Inc. , off 2.34, or 4.1%, and Home Depot Inc. , down $2.16, or 1.5%, together were weighing the Dow down by more than 30 points. Each $1 move in any of the price-weighted Dow’s components its equivalent to a 6.84-point swing in the equity average. Overall, the Dow was off 33 points, or 0.2%, adding to Thursday’s drop, which was the worst for the gauge since May 17; and snapped a 63-session streak without a decline of at least 1%. The Dow is set to end the week down about 0.6%, marking its fourth straight weekly drop since June 30, a sign that the industrials are losing momentum after a run of repeated all-time highs. Friday’s trade was volatile as the market, during a thinly traded August session, reacted to political news events, notably the announcement that White House adviser Stephen Bannon was ousted amid a fervor of President Donald Trump’s reaction to a white-supremacist rally over the weekend. The rest of the market was fighting to post slight gains. The S&P 500 index was trading up less than 0.1% at 2,431, while the Nasdaq Composite Index was up 0.2% at 6,232.
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