Stocks traded lower for a third straight day, as Wall Street weighed a fresh batch of corporate earnings results ahead of July's jobs report due out later this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 60 points, while the S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq Composite were 0.25% and 0.10% lower, respectively.
Here's how the market settled on Thursday:
S&P 500 Index
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Nasdaq Composite Index
The second-quarter earnings season continued on Thursday, with Qualcomm
CEO Cristiano Amon said that Qualcomm's artificial intelligence strategy seeks to capitalize on the industry focus on chips needs to run generative software. "In summary, we are uniquely positioned to help shape and capitalize on the upcoming on-device Gen AI opportunity," Amon said in a statement.
Expedia
PayPal
Warner Bros. Discovery
On the economic front, U.S. services sector expanded at a slower-than-expected rate in July, according to a report from the Institute for Supply Management on Thursday. The ISM Services PMI came in at a reading of 52.7, representing expansion but coming below June's print of 53.9. Separately, July's PMI reading from the S&P Global U.S. Services PMI Business Activity Index came in at a seasonally adjusted 52.3.
"The service sector remains the main engine of growth in the [U.S.] economy, though there are signs of the motor spluttering amid rising headwinds," said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, in a statement.
Looking ahead, market participants will react to earnings from Apple