Stock Market Update

[BRIEFING.COM] The Dow Jones Industrial Average (+0.5%) is outpacing the Nasdaq Composite (-0.2%) and S&P 500 (+0.2%) today, much like it has done since the start of the year.

Today's outperformance comes despite losses in UnitedHealth Group (UNH 537.05, -8.40, -1.5%), Amazon.com (AMZN 236.78, -5.28, -2.2%), Apple (AAPL 230.15, -2.65, -1.1%), and Walt Disney (DIS 111.76, -1.54, -1.4%), which is falling after reporting quarterly results that featured a large qtr/qtr drop in Disney+ subscribers.

Fortunately, the majority of components (20 to be exact) are sporting gains today, including Amgen (AMGN 306.05, +17.04, +5.9%) after its earnings report, and the highest-priced Dow stock of all: Goldman Sachs (GS 643.25, +9.07, +1.4%).

Goldman's gain is contributing to an 0.8% increase in the S&P 500 financial sector.