{"id":59992,"date":"2026-03-20T09:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-slumps-on-quadruple-witching-volatility-and-boeing-supply-woes\/59992\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:10:04","slug":"dowjonestodaydow-jones-slumps-on-quadruple-witching-volatility-and-boeing-supply-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-slumps-on-quadruple-witching-volatility-and-boeing-supply-woes\/59992\/","title":{"rendered":"[DowJonesToday]Dow Jones Slumps on Quadruple Witching Volatility and Boeing Supply Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/indices\/dowjones\/today\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Dow Jones Today\">Dow Jones<\/a> Industrial Average (^DJI)<\/strong> was down <strong>203.72 (-0.44%)<\/strong> points today at <strong>46,021.43<\/strong> as investors grappled with the volatility of <strong>Quadruple Witching Friday<\/strong>. This quarterly event, marked by the simultaneous expiration of stock options, index options, index futures, and single-stock futures, frequently triggers erratic price action and exceptionally high trading volumes. <strong>Dow Futures (YM=F)<\/strong> was down <strong>125.00 (-0.27%)<\/strong> points today at <strong>46,216.00<\/strong>. Beyond technical derivative pressures, the market narrative was heavily influenced by renewed concerns regarding <strong>industrial manufacturing stability<\/strong> and a pullback in the <strong>healthcare sector<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The primary downward pressure on the blue-chip index came from Boeing (<a href=\"\/stock\/BA\">BA<\/a>), which was down <strong>1.95%<\/strong> at <strong>$201.18<\/strong>. The aerospace giant faced significant selling pressure following reports of supply chain bottlenecks affecting delivery schedules. Similarly, the healthcare industry weighed heavily on performance, with Amgen (<a href=\"\/stock\/AMGN\">AMGN<\/a>) down <strong>1.68%<\/strong> at <strong>$349.92<\/strong> and UnitedHealth Group (<a href=\"\/stock\/UNH\">UNH<\/a>) down <strong>1.33%<\/strong> at <strong>$280.44<\/strong>. Other notable decliners included McDonald&#39;s (<a href=\"\/stock\/MCD\">MCD<\/a>), which was down <strong>1.58%<\/strong>, and Procter &amp; Gamble (<a href=\"\/stock\/PG\">PG<\/a>), down <strong>1.17%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the energy sector provided a vital cushion. Chevron (<a href=\"\/stock\/CVX\">CVX<\/a>) led the gainers, as it was up <strong>1.51%<\/strong> at <strong>$201.44<\/strong>, buoyed by a slight uptick in global crude prices. Technology components also showed resilience; Cisco (<a href=\"\/stock\/CSCO\">CSCO<\/a>) was up a solid <strong>1.30%<\/strong> at <strong>$78.51<\/strong>, while Goldman Sachs (<a href=\"\/stock\/GS\">GS<\/a>) was up approximately <strong>0.93%<\/strong> at <strong>$809.50<\/strong>. American Express (<a href=\"\/stock\/AXP\">AXP<\/a>) was up <strong>0.74%<\/strong> at <strong>$294.93<\/strong>. Despite these gains, the index remained in the red as the defensive Johnson &amp; Johnson (<a href=\"\/stock\/JNJ\">JNJ<\/a>) was up only <strong>0.57%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) was down 203.72 (-0.44%) points today at 46,021.43 as investors grappled with the volatility [&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":[29,298,3016,3767,18041],"class_list":["post-59992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snippets-dow-jones","tag-csco","tag-cvx","tag-dji","tag-ba","tag-quadruplewitching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59992","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=59992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59992\/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=59992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}