{"id":58657,"date":"2026-02-17T12:09:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-dips-as-energy-and-retail-slump-offsets-gains-in-tech-and-finance\/58657\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:09:29","slug":"dowjonestodaydow-jones-dips-as-energy-and-retail-slump-offsets-gains-in-tech-and-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-dips-as-energy-and-retail-slump-offsets-gains-in-tech-and-finance\/58657\/","title":{"rendered":"[DowJonesToday]Dow Jones Dips as Energy and Retail Slump Offsets Gains in Tech and Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones<\/a> Index (^DJI)<\/strong> was down 48.79 (-0.10%) points today<\/strong>, reaching 49,452.14<\/strong> as markets reopened following the holiday weekend. Sentiment remained cautious throughout the session as Dow Futures (YM=F)<\/strong> also struggled and was down 199.00 (-0.40%) points<\/strong>. The primary narrative driving the market today<\/a> was a reaction to weaker-than-expected manufacturing data<\/strong> and a sharp decline in crude oil prices<\/strong>, which pressured the industrial and energy components of the blue-chip index.<\/p>\n

Despite the slight overall decline, technology and financial stocks provided essential support to the market. Apple (AAPL<\/a>) was up 1.55%<\/strong> to $259.74<\/strong>, leading the gains alongside Visa (V<\/a>), which also was up 1.55%<\/strong> at $318.88<\/strong>. Banking giant JPMorgan Chase (JPM<\/a>) rose 1.35%<\/strong> to $306.88<\/strong>, while American Express (AXP<\/a>) gained 0.89%<\/strong> to reach $340.99<\/strong>. These moves suggest that investors are currently rotating into high-quality growth and financial assets to hedge against broader economic volatility and fluctuating commodity prices.<\/p>\n

Conversely, Salesforce (CRM<\/a>) was the biggest loser of the session and was down 3.02%<\/strong> to $184.02<\/strong> following concerns over enterprise software demand. The energy sector also dragged significantly, with Chevron (CVX<\/a>) falling 2.69%<\/strong> to $178.88<\/strong>. Industrial bellwether Caterpillar (CAT<\/a>) was down 2.66%<\/strong> at $753.41<\/strong>, while retail heavyweights Walmart (WMT<\/a>) and Home Depot (HD<\/a>) dropped 2.61%<\/strong> and 2.52%<\/strong> respectively. These declines reflect mounting anxiety regarding the impact of sustained high interest rates on consumer spending and global industrial production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones Index (^DJI) was down 48.79 (-0.10%) points today, reaching 49,452.14 as markets reopened following the holiday weekend. […]<\/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":[75,225,298,3016,4350,5310,17074],"class_list":["post-58657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summary-snippets","tag-crm","tag-aapl","tag-cvx","tag-dji","tag-dow-jones","tag-us-economy","tag-stock-market-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58657","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=58657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58657\/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=58657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}