[BRIEFING.COM] The Dow Jones Industrial Average (+0.3%) trades near its best level of the day while the Nasdaq Composite (flat) moved closer to its prior close in recent trading.
Alphabet (GOOG 192.80, -14.92, -7.2%), Apple (AAPL 230.70, -2.10, -0.9%), Amazon.com (AMZN 236.62, -5.24, -2.2%), and Tesla (TSLA 382.26, -10.01, -2.5%) continue to weigh down the indices.
This price action has led their respective S&P 500 sectors -- consumer discretionary (-1.3%) and communication services (-3.1%) sectors -- to show the largest declines by a wide margin among the 11 sectors.