April is historically the strongest month for the S&P and the NASDAQ index. On the first day of the three-month, the results were mixed with S&P was lower on the day, while the NASDAQ was higher.
The Dow Industrial Average Russell 2000 both fell as well.
The final numbers are showing:
Dow industrial average fell -240.52 points or -0.60% at 39566.84S&P index fell -10.58 points were -0.20% at 5243.78NASDAQ index rose 17.37 points or 0.11% and 16396.83Russell 2000 fell -21.71 points or -1.02% to 2102.83
Some sampling of the bigger names shows:
Nvidia unchangedSuper Micro Computers, +$27.12 or 2.69%Meta Platforms +1.19%Apple -0.88%Google +3.02%Microsoft +0.92%Micron +5.51%Intel +0.79%Dell +4.85%Tesla -0.32%Broadcom +1.87%Chevron +0.85%Netflix +1.15%Costco -1.55%Home Depot – 4.06%United health -1.01%Boeing -1.69%Disney (ahead of its board members) -0.71%
This article was written by Greg Michalowski at www.forexlive.com.