04:26 PM EST, 03/05/2024 (MT Newswires) -- US benchmark equity indexes closed lower Tuesday, with technology falling 2.2% amid declines in shares of Apple ( AAPL ) , Tesla (TSLA) and other major players. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.7% to 15,939.6. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 fell 1% each to 38,585.2 and 5,078.7, respectively. Among...

Stocks opened in negative territory Tuesday and stayed there through the close. Another down day for mega-cap tech giant Apple (AAPL) created headwinds for the main indexes, as did anxiety ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's two-day congressional testimony and Friday's jobs report.   At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 1% at 38,585, the S&P...

* TSX ends down 5.14 points at 21,525.93 * Tech falls 2.8%; Shopify ( SHOP ) hits a 2-month low * Materials group rises; gold posts record high * Energy gains 1% (Updates at market close) By Purvi Agarwal and Fergal Smith March 5 (Reuters) - Canada's main index ended lower on Tuesday as losses for the technology sector offset...

* China announces 2024 5% economic growth target * Colombia's Grupo Aval rises on higher Q4 profit * Brazil's Cogna up after rating upgrade * FX down 0.1%, stocks off 0.5% (Updated at 3:20pm ET/2020 GMT) By Shashwat Chauhan and Lisa Pauline Mattackal March 5 (Reuters) - Emerging market stocks were pressured and currencies of Latin America's copper-producing nations dipped...