Stock market today: Wall Street’s smallest stocks roar a day after its worst loss since 2022 WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

NEW YORK — (AP) — Wall Street’s split widened Thursday, as smaller stocks and other formerly downtrodden areas of the market rose up while superstar Big Tech stocks gave back more of their stellar gains.

A swirling day of trading left the S&P 500 with a loss of 0.5% following its slide from the day before, which was its worst since 2022 and led to a wipeout for financial markets around the world.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 81 points, or 0.2%, while the Nasdaq composite sank 0.9%.

Weighing on Wall Street were continued losses for Nvidia and most of the handful of Big Tech stocks that have been primarily responsible for the S&P 500’s run to records this year. They had tumbled a day earlier after profit reports from Tesla and Alphabet underwhelmed and raised concerns that the market’s frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology had sent prices too high.

Whether the handful of stocks known as the “Magnificent Seven” are …