Dow closes 300 points lower Friday as rate worries hinder postelection rally: Live updates
n Evans Alex Harring Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor on Nov. 12, 2024. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Stocks tumbled on Friday as the postelection rally fizzled and investors fretted over the path of interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 305.87 points, or 0.70%, to end at 43,444.99. The S&P 500 slipped 1.32% and closed at 5,870.62, while the Nasdaq Composite fell 2.24% to 18,680.12. Declines in pharmaceutical stocks weighed on the 30-stock Dow and the S&P 500, with Amgen down about 4.2% and Moderna off by 7.3%. President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday that he planned to nominate vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI) tumbled more than 5% and posted its worst week since 2020. The information technology sector of the S&P 500 was the worst-performing corner of the market, down more than 2%, as Nvidia, Meta Platforms , Alphabet