{"id":71598,"date":"2026-09-09T14:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-slides-as-inflation-concerns-and-tech-volatility-weigh-on-sentiment\/71598\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:09:09","slug":"dowjonestodaydow-jones-slides-as-inflation-concerns-and-tech-volatility-weigh-on-sentiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-slides-as-inflation-concerns-and-tech-volatility-weigh-on-sentiment\/71598\/","title":{"rendered":"[DowJonesToday]Dow Jones Slides as Inflation Concerns and Tech Volatility Weigh on Sentiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones<\/a> Industrial Average (^DJI<\/a>)<\/strong> was down 329.53 (-0.62%)<\/strong> points today, currently sitting at 52,456.54<\/strong>, while Dow Futures (YM=F<\/a>)<\/strong> followed suit, down 318.00 (-0.60%)<\/strong>. The primary narrative driving the market lower on this Wednesday, September 9th, 2026<\/strong>, is a combination of renewed inflationary fears<\/strong> and a rotation out of high-growth technology and enterprise software names. Investors are reacting to a fresh batch of economic data<\/strong> suggesting that core price pressures remain stickier than anticipated, prompting concerns that the Federal Reserve<\/strong> may maintain a restrictive monetary policy for longer than the market had initially priced in for the final quarter of the year.<\/p>\n

Leading the gainers today is 3M (MMM<\/a>)<\/strong>, which was up 3.70%<\/strong> to $148.62<\/strong> following a positive legal settlement update that cleared a significant overhang for the industrial giant. In the semiconductor space, Nvidia<\/a> (NVDA<\/a>)<\/strong> bucked the broader tech trend and was up 1.77%<\/strong> to $225.01<\/strong>, supported by continued demand for AI infrastructure. Other defensive plays also saw strength, with Johnson & Johnson (JNJ<\/a>)<\/strong> up 1.61%<\/strong> and Cisco Systems (CSCO<\/a>)<\/strong> up 1.33%<\/strong> as traders sought yield and stability amidst the broader index volatility.<\/p>\n

Conversely, the Dow faced significant pressure from IBM (IBM<\/a>)<\/strong>, which was down 2.42%<\/strong> to $213.40<\/strong>, and Home Depot (HD<\/a>)<\/strong>, which was down 2.14%<\/strong> to $303.85<\/strong> on fears of slowing consumer discretionary spending. Software leader Salesforce (CRM<\/a>)<\/strong> also struggled, down 1.64%<\/strong>, while financial heavyweights like American Express (AXP<\/a>)<\/strong> and JPMorgan Chase (JPM<\/a>)<\/strong> were down 1.27%<\/strong> and 1.12%<\/strong> respectively. This downward movement in cyclical and financial stocks reflects a growing caution regarding the pace of economic expansion heading into the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) was down 329.53 (-0.62%) points today, currently sitting at 52,456.54, while Dow Futures (YM=F) […]<\/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":[293,633,1773,3016,3878,4223,4350,17074],"class_list":["post-71598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snippets-dow-jones","tag-ibm","tag-nvda","tag-mmm","tag-dji","tag-hd","tag-inflation","tag-dow-jones","tag-stock-market-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71598","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=71598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71598\/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=71598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}