After moving mostly lower early in the session, stocks continue to see moderate weakness in afternoon trading on Wednesday. While the Dow has been bouncing back and forth across the unchanged, the Nasdaq and S&P 500 have spent most of the day in negative territory.
Currently, the Nasdaq is down 64.74 points or 0.5 percent at 14,079.82, the S&P 500 is down 12.74 points or 0.3 percent at 4,554.72 and the Dow is down 18.20 points or 0.1 percent at 35,419.87.
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