{"id":59618,"date":"2026-03-10T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-rises-on-industrial-strength-and-infrastructure-optimism\/59618\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:09:35","slug":"dowjonestodaydow-jones-rises-on-industrial-strength-and-infrastructure-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-rises-on-industrial-strength-and-infrastructure-optimism\/59618\/","title":{"rendered":"[DowJonesToday]Dow Jones Rises on Industrial Strength and Infrastructure Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/markets\/dowjones\/today.aspx\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Dow Jones Today\">Dow Jones<\/a> Index (^DJI)<\/strong> was up <strong>156.49 (+0.3278%)<\/strong> points today, reaching <strong>47,897.29<\/strong>, while <strong>Dow Futures (YM=F)<\/strong> was up <strong>259.00 (+0.5422%)<\/strong> points. The primary narrative driving the market was a stronger-than-expected <strong>Industrial Production<\/strong> report, which signaled resilience in the <strong>U.S. manufacturing sector<\/strong>. This economic data encouraged a rotation into cyclical stocks and infrastructure-related equities, as investors weighed the potential for sustained economic growth against the backdrop of upcoming inflation data.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the blue-chip gainers was <strong>Cisco Systems (<a href=\"\/stock\/CSCO\">CSCO<\/a>)<\/strong>, which was up <strong>3.43%<\/strong> to <strong>$78.82<\/strong> after announcing new AI-integrated networking solutions. <strong>Caterpillar (<a href=\"\/stock\/CAT\">CAT<\/a>)<\/strong> followed closely, up <strong>2.82%<\/strong> to <strong>$725.69<\/strong>, fueled by increased demand for heavy equipment. Other significant performers included <strong>3M (<a href=\"\/stock\/MMM\">MMM<\/a>)<\/strong>, up <strong>2.31%<\/strong> to <strong>$155.13<\/strong>, and <strong>Honeywell (<a href=\"\/stock\/HON\">HON<\/a>)<\/strong>, up <strong>2.26%<\/strong> to <strong>$242.70<\/strong>. <strong>Nvidia (<a href=\"\/stock\/NVDA\">NVDA<\/a>)<\/strong> also maintained momentum, up <strong>1.66%<\/strong> to <strong>$185.84<\/strong>, while <strong>Home Depot (<a href=\"\/stock\/HD\">HD<\/a>)<\/strong> rose <strong>1.46%<\/strong> to <strong>$358.46<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the enterprise software segment weighed on the index. <strong>Salesforce (<a href=\"\/stock\/CRM\">CRM<\/a>)<\/strong> was the biggest loser, down <strong>2.00%<\/strong> to <strong>$194.89<\/strong>, as analysts expressed caution regarding near-term cloud spending. <strong>IBM (<a href=\"\/stock\/IBM\">IBM<\/a>)<\/strong> and <strong>Microsoft (<a href=\"\/stock\/MSFT\">MSFT<\/a>)<\/strong> were both down <strong>0.79%<\/strong>, at <strong>$251.25<\/strong> and <strong>$406.22<\/strong> respectively. Energy and consumer staples also saw slight retreats, with <strong>Chevron (<a href=\"\/stock\/CVX\">CVX<\/a>)<\/strong> down <strong>0.41%<\/strong> to <strong>$188.66<\/strong> and <strong>McDonald&#39;s (<a href=\"\/stock\/MCD\">MCD<\/a>)<\/strong> down <strong>0.44%<\/strong> to <strong>$329.21<\/strong>. Despite these drags, the broader <strong>Dow Jones<\/strong> remained in positive territory today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dow Jones Index (^DJI) was up 156.49 (+0.3278%) points today, reaching 47,897.29, while Dow Futures (YM=F) was up 259.00 [&hellip;]<\/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":[17736],"tags":[29,75,216,3016,4350,4380,4817,4865],"class_list":["post-59618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snippets-dow-jones","tag-csco","tag-crm","tag-cat","tag-dji","tag-dow-jones","tag-stock-market","tag-manufacturing","tag-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59618","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=59618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59618\/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=59618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}