Wall Street opens in the red and the Dow Jones drops 0.39%

NEW YORK, New York.— This Monday, the day on Wall Street opened in the red, when the Dow Jones de Industriales, its main indicator, fell 0.39%.

At the opening

Ten minutes after the opening of the New York Stock Exchangehe Dow Jones stood at 39,935 points, and the selective S&P 500 It fell 0.13%, to 5,130 integers.

The Composite Market Index Nasdaqwhere the main technology companies are listed, fell 0.11%, to 16,257 units.

Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.11% weekly, while the S&P rose 0.95% cumulatively and the Nasdaq rose 1.74%.

What affects the markets today?

Las Apple stock fell 2.33% after the European Comission (EC) will announce this Monday a fine of 1,840 million euros to the technology giant for imposing restrictions on competitors of its App Store streaming music servicesuch as Spotify, which effectively prevented them from informing iPhone and iPad users about cheaper music subscription options outside of the app.

For its part, the actions of the American airline JetBlue rose 2.01% after their announcement this Monday of waiver of purchase from the low cost company Spiritwhose shares were down 10.83%, a project that began in 2022 and ran into the opposition from the Department of Justice for violating the antitrust laws.

He bitcoinsthe most used cryptocurrency, rose 5.17% today, thus exceeding $66,000 in a context of greater demand after the approval of ETFs (traded funds) linked to spot bitcoin and the doors of a nuevo ‘halving’ (halving the reward per mined block).

By sectors

Losses predominated, led by the communications sector (-1.32%) and real estate (-0.71%), while the sectors with the most gains were raw materials (0.4%) and industrial (0.36%).

Among the 30 Dow Jones stocks, the biggest advances were for IBM (1.72%) and Goldman Sachs (1.6%), and the most affected were Apple and Chevron (-2.27%).

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