Stock market today: S&P 500, Nasdaq sink, adding to tech sell-off after jobs data as Google slides, Amazon looms
Yahoo Finance·2026-02-05 14:35
US stocks turned lower on Thursday in an apparently fruitless search for a reprieve from a building tech sell-off as investors awaited Amazon earnings, assessed Alphabet's big AI spending plans, and digested jobs data that signaled fresh weakness in the labor market. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) moved roughly 0.9% lower, while the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) shed 1.3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI), which includes fewer tech names, edged about 0.5% lower. The market is in the midst of a trillion-dollar te ...