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Stock indexes were modestly lower Tuesday after a big Monday for technology shares. There was some bad news on the Covid-19 vaccine front and little progress toward a fiscal stimulus bill in Washington, but most of Tuesday’s action was on the individual stock level, as third-quarter earnings season kicks off.
On Tuesday morning, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average
fell 110 points, or 0.4%, the
S&P 500
also dipped 0.4%, and the
Nasdaq Composite
ticked down less than 0.1%.
It was a contrast to Monday, when stocks jumped on little news during a light Columbus Day holiday and the technology-heavy Nasdaq rallied 2.6% to its third-highest close in history.
Contributing to the lackluster trading on Tuesday was an announcement from
Johnson & Johnson
(ticker: JNJ) on Monday night that it paused its trial of a coronavirus vaccine after an unexplained illness in a trial participant.
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