Both the NASDAQ and the S&P500 fell for the third successive session, whereas the DJIA after its two day decline- made it into the plus column, but by just .04 percent. Accordingly, todays pattern is -3/0 for the NASDAQ and the S&P500; it is +1/-2 for the DJIA.Only 17 previous sessions have this combination, 6 of which happened since January 2000. Changes on the following day are distributed equally between advances and declines for the DJIA and the S&P500. However the NASDAQs record reveals 12 gains compared to just 5 declines. Yet the number of up and down dates since 2000 is tied at plus three and down three.
DJIA .04 percentNASDAQ -.33 percent
S&P500 -.26 percent