{"id":60174,"date":"2026-03-25T14:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-surges-on-cooling-inflation-data-and-healthcare-strength\/60174\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:09:33","slug":"dowjonestodaydow-jones-surges-on-cooling-inflation-data-and-healthcare-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-surges-on-cooling-inflation-data-and-healthcare-strength\/60174\/","title":{"rendered":"[DowJonesToday]Dow Jones Surges on Cooling Inflation Data and Healthcare Strength"},"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 up <strong>356.75 (0.77%)<\/strong> points today, reaching <strong>46,480.81<\/strong>, as market participants embraced optimistic economic data. The primary narrative driving the session was a fresh report showing inflation moderating faster than projected. This development fueled a rally across interest-rate-sensitive sectors, as investors bet on a more dovish Federal Reserve policy for the remainder of the year. <strong>Dow Futures (YM=F)<\/strong> was also up <strong>359.00 (0.77%)<\/strong> points, signaling sustained confidence in the market trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the gainers, <strong>Merck &amp; Co., Inc. (<a href=\"\/stock\/MRK\">MRK<\/a>)<\/strong> was up <strong>2.59%<\/strong> to <strong>$119.43<\/strong>, buoyed by pharmaceutical strength and positive clinical trial updates. E-commerce leader <strong>Amazon.com, Inc. (<a href=\"\/stock\/AMZN\">AMZN<\/a>)<\/strong> was up <strong>2.39%<\/strong> to <strong>$212.21<\/strong>, while <strong>Honeywell International Inc. (<a href=\"\/stock\/HON\">HON<\/a>)<\/strong> was up <strong>2.34%<\/strong> to <strong>$226.77<\/strong>. Healthcare continued its strong showing with <strong>Johnson &amp; Johnson (<a href=\"\/stock\/JNJ\">JNJ<\/a>)<\/strong> up <strong>2.28%<\/strong> to <strong>$240.78<\/strong>, and <strong>Amgen Inc. (<a href=\"\/stock\/AMGN\">AMGN<\/a>)<\/strong> up <strong>1.80%<\/strong> to <strong>$354.85<\/strong>. In the tech and aerospace sectors, <strong>Nvidia (<a href=\"\/stock\/NVDA\">NVDA<\/a>)<\/strong> was up <strong>2.16%<\/strong> to <strong>$179.00<\/strong>, and <strong>The Boeing Company (<a href=\"\/stock\/BA\">BA<\/a>)<\/strong> was up <strong>1.75%<\/strong> to <strong>$199.94<\/strong> following reports of increased production efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, several laggards limited the index&#39;s advance. <strong>UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (<a href=\"\/stock\/UNH\">UNH<\/a>)<\/strong> was down <strong>1.14%<\/strong> to <strong>$269.16<\/strong>, as the sector saw a rotation out of managed care providers. <strong>NIKE, Inc. (<a href=\"\/stock\/NKE\">NKE<\/a>)<\/strong> was down <strong>0.76%<\/strong> to <strong>$53.11<\/strong> following a cautious outlook on global consumer spending. Other decliners included <strong>Salesforce, Inc. (<a href=\"\/stock\/CRM\">CRM<\/a>)<\/strong>, which was down <strong>0.73%<\/strong> to <strong>$181.86<\/strong>, and <strong>Verizon Communications Inc. (<a href=\"\/stock\/VZ\">VZ<\/a>)<\/strong>, which was down <strong>0.62%<\/strong> to <strong>$50.60<\/strong>. Despite these pullbacks, broader sentiment remained bullish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) was up 356.75 (0.77%) points today, reaching 46,480.81, as market participants embraced optimistic economic [&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":[373,391,633,1067,3016,4350,17074,18111],"class_list":["post-60174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snippets-dow-jones","tag-unh","tag-amzn","tag-nvda","tag-mrk","tag-dji","tag-dow-jones","tag-stock-market-today","tag-inflation-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60174","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=60174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60174\/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=60174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}