{"id":66122,"date":"2026-08-07T07:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-futures-edge-higher-as-industrial-strength-offsets-tech-drag\/66122\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:09:16","slug":"dowjonestodaydow-jones-futures-edge-higher-as-industrial-strength-offsets-tech-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-futures-edge-higher-as-industrial-strength-offsets-tech-drag\/66122\/","title":{"rendered":"[DowJonesToday]Dow Jones Futures Edge Higher as Industrial Strength Offsets Tech Drag"},"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<\/strong> futures was up <strong>31.00 (0.0574%)<\/strong> points today, reaching <strong>54,044.00<\/strong>, as global investors navigated a complex landscape of corporate earnings and shifting sector rotations. The primary narrative driving the market on this <strong>Friday, August 7, 2026<\/strong>, centered on a distinct divergence between <strong>industrial resilience<\/strong> and <strong>enterprise technology cooling<\/strong>. While the headline index showed marginal movement, the underlying volatility was fueled by specific quarterly reports that highlighted a &quot;flight to quality&quot; within the blue-chip sector, favoring established manufacturing and healthcare giants over high-growth software and consumer discretionary stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the gainers, <strong>3M<\/strong> (<a href=\"\/stock\/MMM\">MMM<\/a>) was up <strong>3.70%<\/strong> to <strong>$148.62<\/strong>, buoyed by better-than-expected guidance in its materials science division. This industrial strength was complemented by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock\/NVDA\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"15\" title=\"stock: NVDA\">Nvidia<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"\/stock\/NVDA\">NVDA<\/a>), which was up <strong>1.77%<\/strong> at <strong>$225.01<\/strong>, showing continued momentum in the hardware space despite broader tech fatigue. Defensive plays also saw significant inflows, with <strong>Johnson &amp; Johnson<\/strong> (<a href=\"\/stock\/JNJ\">JNJ<\/a>) gaining <strong>1.61%<\/strong> to <strong>$227.63<\/strong> and <strong>Cisco Systems<\/strong> (<a href=\"\/stock\/CSCO\">CSCO<\/a>) rising <strong>1.33%<\/strong> to <strong>$100.48<\/strong>. Additionally, <strong>UnitedHealth Group<\/strong> (<a href=\"\/stock\/UNH\">UNH<\/a>) provided essential support to the index, as it was up <strong>1.00%<\/strong> at <strong>$399.64<\/strong>, while <strong>Boeing<\/strong> (<a href=\"\/stock\/BA\">BA<\/a>) was up <strong>0.61%<\/strong> at <strong>$238.21<\/strong> today.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the technology sector faced significant pressure led by <strong>IBM<\/strong> (<a href=\"\/stock\/IBM\">IBM<\/a>), which was down <strong>2.42%<\/strong> to <strong>$213.40<\/strong> following a cautious outlook on enterprise AI spending. This sentiment dragged down other cloud and software giants, including <strong>Salesforce<\/strong> (<a href=\"\/stock\/CRM\">CRM<\/a>), which was down <strong>1.64%<\/strong> to <strong>$168.45<\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock\/MSFT\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"18\" title=\"Stock: MSFT\">Microsoft<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"\/stock\/MSFT\">MSFT<\/a>), which was down <strong>0.95%<\/strong> at <strong>$403.87<\/strong>. Consumer-facing and housing-linked stocks also struggled during the session; <strong>Home Depot<\/strong> (<a href=\"\/stock\/HD\">HD<\/a>) was down <strong>2.14%<\/strong> at <strong>$303.85<\/strong>, while <strong>Sherwin-Williams<\/strong> (<a href=\"\/stock\/SHW\">SHW<\/a>) was down <strong>1.36%<\/strong> to <strong>$307.61<\/strong>. Financials were mixed, as <strong>JPMorgan Chase<\/strong> (<a href=\"\/stock\/JPM\">JPM<\/a>) was down <strong>1.12%<\/strong> at <strong>$301.51<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average futures was up 31.00 (0.0574%) points today, reaching 54,044.00, as global investors navigated a complex [&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":[293,633,1773,4350,17074],"class_list":["post-66122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snippets-dow-jones","tag-ibm","tag-nvda","tag-mmm","tag-dow-jones","tag-stock-market-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66122","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=66122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66122\/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=66122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}