{"id":64364,"date":"2026-07-07T09:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-climbs-as-industrial-strength-and-tech-gains-offset-retail-slump\/64364\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:09:12","slug":"dowjonestodaydow-jones-climbs-as-industrial-strength-and-tech-gains-offset-retail-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-climbs-as-industrial-strength-and-tech-gains-offset-retail-slump\/64364\/","title":{"rendered":"[DowJonesToday]Dow Jones Climbs as Industrial Strength and Tech Gains Offset Retail Slump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones<\/a> Futures (YM=F)<\/strong> was up 225.00 (0.42%)<\/strong> points today, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026, reaching a level of 53,597.00<\/strong>. The primary narrative driving the market is a surge in industrial sector resilience<\/strong> and semiconductor momentum<\/strong>, which helped lift the blue-chip index despite significant headwinds in the retail<\/strong> and enterprise software<\/strong> sectors. Investors appear to be rotating into value-oriented industrials<\/strong> and AI infrastructure<\/strong> plays as they digest the latest batch of corporate guidance.<\/p>\n

Leading the gainers, 3M (MMM<\/a>) was up 3.70%<\/strong> to $148.62<\/strong>, buoyed by positive developments in its ongoing legal restructuring and improved manufacturing margins. Nvidia<\/a> (NVDA<\/a>) continued its upward trajectory, up 1.77%<\/strong> to $225.01<\/strong>, as demand for next-generation AI chips<\/strong> remains robust. Other notable performers included Johnson & Johnson (JNJ<\/a>), which was up 1.61%<\/strong> to $227.63<\/strong>, and Cisco Systems (CSCO<\/a>), gaining 1.33%<\/strong> to reach $100.48<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Conversely, the market faced pressure from IBM (IBM<\/a>), which was down 2.42%<\/strong> to $213.40<\/strong> following a cautious outlook on enterprise spending<\/strong>. Home Depot (HD<\/a>) also struggled, down 2.14%<\/strong> to $303.85<\/strong>, as elevated interest rates<\/strong> continue to dampen the home improvement market<\/strong>. Additionally, Salesforce (CRM<\/a>) was down 1.64%<\/strong> to $168.45<\/strong>, while Sherwin-Williams (SHW<\/a>) saw a decline of 1.36%<\/strong> to $307.61<\/strong>, reflecting broader concerns regarding consumer discretionary spending<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones Futures (YM=F) was up 225.00 (0.42%) points today, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026, reaching a level of 53,597.00. […]<\/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":[293,633,1773,3878,4350,17074,19921],"class_list":["post-64364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snippets-dow-jones","tag-ibm","tag-nvda","tag-mmm","tag-hd","tag-dow-jones","tag-stock-market-today","tag-july-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64364","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=64364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64364\/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=64364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}