{"id":56751,"date":"2025-12-01T18:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-declines-amidst-manufacturing-concerns-and-tech-sell-off\/56751\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:09:21","slug":"dowjonestodaydow-jones-declines-amidst-manufacturing-concerns-and-tech-sell-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-declines-amidst-manufacturing-concerns-and-tech-sell-off\/56751\/","title":{"rendered":"[DowJonesToday]Dow Jones Declines Amidst Manufacturing Concerns and Tech Sell-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones<\/a> Industrial Average (^DJI)<\/strong> experienced a notable downturn today, Monday, December 1st, 2025, closing down 427.09 (-0.8951%) points<\/strong>. This decline marked a shift to "risk-off sentiment" as the final trading month of the year commenced, with investors reacting to unexpected economic data and ongoing concerns surrounding big technology valuations. Dow Futures (YM=F<\/strong>) also reflected this cautious mood, trading down 399.00 (-0.8357%) points<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The primary narrative driving the market's negative performance was the release of disappointing ISM Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI)<\/strong> data for November, which fell to 48.2<\/strong> from 48.7<\/strong> in October. This marked the ninth consecutive month of contraction for the manufacturing sector, falling below consensus estimates and fueling broader investor caution regarding economic growth. Additionally, a general pullback in the tech sector, driven by worries over valuations and AI spending, contributed to the overall market weakness.<\/p>\n

Despite the broader market decline, several Dow components posted gains. The biggest advancers included Walt Disney Company<\/strong> (DIS<\/a>) and Nike<\/strong> (NKE<\/a>), both rising 2.05%<\/strong>. Nvidia<\/strong> (NVDA<\/a>) also saw a positive movement, up 1.51%<\/strong>, following an announcement of an expanded partnership and investment in Synopsys. Other notable gainers included Salesforce<\/strong> (CRM<\/a>) with a 1.49%<\/strong> increase and Home Depot<\/strong> (HD<\/a>) up 1.44%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Conversely, several blue-chip stocks faced significant selling pressure. The largest losers for the day were Merck & Co.<\/strong> (MRK<\/a>), which fell -2.05%<\/strong>, McDonald's<\/strong> (MCD<\/a>) dropping -2.04%<\/strong>, and Amgen<\/strong> (AMGN<\/a>) declining -2.03%<\/strong>. Other significant decliners included Goldman Sachs<\/strong> (GS<\/a>) down -1.51%<\/strong> and Coca-Cola<\/strong> (KO<\/a>) which shed -1.25%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) experienced a notable downturn today, Monday, December 1st, 2025, closing down 427.09 (-0.8951%) points. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"rank_math_schema_Article":[],"rank_math_focus_keyword":[],"rank_math_description":[],"financial_data_references":[],"stock_symbols_mentioned":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6803],"tags":[4380,69,633,7503,751,11999,809,1067,1160,1279,3016,4345,4350],"class_list":["post-56751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summary-snippets","tag-stock-market","tag-mcd","tag-nvda","tag-manufacturing-pmi","tag-pmi","tag-market-summary","tag-dis","tag-mrk","tag-nke","tag-amgn","tag-dji","tag-tech-stocks","tag-dow-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}