Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq drop as Hormuz tensions increase
Small caps just pushed the Russell 2000 index (^RUT) to its first intraday record high in nearly two weeks, and its fourth of the year.
But the story this morning is the seemingly unstopple juggernaut: semiconductors. The PHLX semiconductor index (^SOX) is tracking its 22nd win in the last 23 sessions, as it claims its 15th intraday all-time high of 2026.
Here are this morning’s intraday record highs:
Dow Jones Sectors/Industries: Heavy Construction, Technology
Indices: Russell 2000 (^RUT)
Large-cap sector ETFs: Technology (XLK)
Small-cap sector ETFs: Small-cap tech (PSCT)
Industry/Style/Country ETFs: South Korea (EWY), Semiconductors (SOXX), High Beta (SPHB), Value (VLUE)
Consumer discretionary stocks: Casey’s (CASY), eBay (EBAY), Vishay (VSH)
Financial stocks: Cboe (CBOE)
Industrial stocks: ASGN (ASGN), Emcor (EME), Comfort Systems (FIX), Powell Industries (POWL), Quanta Services (PWR), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN)
Energy stocks: Petrobras (PBR)
Tech stocks: AXT (AXTI), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Micron (MU), MaxLinear (MXL), NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), Silicon Motion (SIMO), Sandisk (SNDK), STMicroelectronics (STM), Seagate (STX), Western Digital (WDC)