By Anders Bylund, The Motley Fool
Publication Date: 2026-08-19 16:56:00
Yesterday, a handful of giant stocks dragged the market down while everything else held steady. Today, the script flipped again. The broad market is rallying, and a cluster of tech names is the thing holding back the market indexes.
The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is up 0.59% as of 11:27 a.m. ET and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) has added 0.58%. The Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) trails at 0.39%, held back by its heavier technology weighting. All three opened lower and two of them climbed through the morning. The Nasdaq took a different path with a short-lived dip into negative territory.
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