The Dow Jones Industrial Average has experienced a significant decline in recent weeks, largely driven by investor rotation away from cyclical stocks and concerns about a potential slowdown in the economy.
The biggest laggard in the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been UnitedHealth, which has contributed to more than half of the decline over the past eight sessions. There's a rotation going on with investors selling out of the cyclical names in the 30-stock Dow that initially popped on Trump's reelection. These names all typically gain when the economy is revving up, are each down at least 5% in December, dragging down the Dow significantly.
These names all had a big November as they were seen as beneficiaries of Trump's deregulatory and pro-economy policies. The Dow, largely comprised of blue-chip consumer discretionary and industrial names, is widely viewed as a proxy for overall economic conditions. The extended sell-off did coincide with renewed concerns about a weaker economy in light of a small jump in jobless claims data last week. However, investors still remain quite optimistic about the economy for 2025 and see nothing on the horizon like the stagflationary period of the late 1970s.There are many reasons to believe the Dow's historic losing streak is not a source for major concern and just a quirk of the price-weighted metric that's more than a century old.Meanwhile, while the length of Dow's sell-off is alarming, the magnitude is not the case. As of Tuesday midday, the average is only down about 1,582 points, or 3.5% from the closing level on Dec. 4, when it first closed above the 45,000 threshold
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