Stock Market Update
20-Aug-24 14:30 ET
A bit of a pickup
Dow -6.63
at 40889.90,
Nasdaq -23.31
at 17853.45,
S&P -3.47
at 5604.78
[BRIEFING.COM] There has been some improvement in the stock market over the past 30 minutes that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average into positive territory for a bit. The catalyst for the improvement was unclear, yet the effort to fight back from losses is not inconsistent with the market's personality of late.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite started today on an eight-session win streak.
The improvement coincided with a pickup in buying interest among the mega-cap stocks, but it wasn't a super-charged move. To wit: the Vanguard Mega-Cap Growth ETF (MGK) went from being down 0.1% to being up 0.2%.
