Tech Stocks Hold Back Wall Street Gains

  • 6 years ago
According to Reuters, Wall Street is trading up heading into a new week with the Dow Jones leading the day in gains.
By the afternoon on August 20th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up over 100-points at 25,769.
While the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite added about 7-points each.
Tech stocks, including Intel, slightly weighed on the S&P and Nasdaq, but both indexes pared those losses with other gains.
For the S&P, the energy and materials sectors were up about seven-tenths of a percent each.