{"id":66953,"date":"2026-08-24T07:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-resilience-tested-amid-industrial-shifts-and-tech-divergence\/66953\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:09:20","slug":"dowjonestodaydow-jones-resilience-tested-amid-industrial-shifts-and-tech-divergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-resilience-tested-amid-industrial-shifts-and-tech-divergence\/66953\/","title":{"rendered":"[DowJonesToday]Dow Jones Resilience Tested Amid Industrial Shifts and Tech Divergence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones<\/a> Industrial Average<\/strong> faced minor pressure as Dow Futures (YM=F)<\/strong> was down 81.00 (-0.15%)<\/strong> points today, trading at 53,272.00<\/strong>. The primary narrative on Monday, August 24, 2026<\/strong>, centers on divergent sector performance<\/strong> following a fresh batch of manufacturing and housing data<\/strong>. While industrial giants found support, enterprise tech and home-improvement retailers struggled, suggesting a cautious outlook on consumer spending<\/strong> and corporate capital expenditures<\/strong> for the remainder of the third quarter.<\/p>\n

3M (MMM<\/a>) was the standout performer, as it was up 3.70%<\/strong> to $148.62<\/strong>, driven by optimistic sentiment surrounding its latest restructuring efforts<\/strong> and legal settlements. Tech momentum was mixed; while Nvidia<\/a> (NVDA<\/a>) was up 1.77%<\/strong> to $225.01<\/strong>, other heavyweights lagged. Defensive stocks also saw significant inflows, with Johnson & Johnson (JNJ<\/a>) up 1.61%<\/strong> to $227.63<\/strong> and Cisco Systems (CSCO<\/a>) up 1.33%<\/strong> to $100.48<\/strong>. UnitedHealth Group (UNH<\/a>) also contributed to the gains, as it was up 1.00%<\/strong> to $399.64<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

On the downside, IBM (IBM<\/a>) led the laggards, as it was down 2.42%<\/strong> to $213.40<\/strong> following a cautious analyst note on enterprise AI spending<\/strong> cycles. The retail sector also felt the pinch of persistent mortgage rates<\/strong>, with Home Depot (HD<\/a>) down 2.14%<\/strong> to $303.85<\/strong>. Other notable decliners included Salesforce (CRM<\/a>), which was down 1.64%<\/strong> to $168.45<\/strong>, and Sherwin-Williams (SHW<\/a>), down 1.36%<\/strong> to $307.61<\/strong>. JPMorgan Chase (JPM<\/a>) also slipped, as it was down 1.12%<\/strong> to $301.51<\/strong>, reflecting broader financial sector<\/strong> volatility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones Industrial Average faced minor pressure as Dow Futures (YM=F) was down 81.00 (-0.15%) points today, trading at […]<\/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":[293,633,1773,3878,4350,17074,21922],"class_list":["post-66953","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-august-24-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66953","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=66953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66953\/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=66953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}