The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) slipped today as the DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) reveal caused chaos for the stock market. That comes after the release of new DeepSeek models that performed as well as, or better than, U.S. rivals. This caused chaos for tech companies in the AI sector as they scrambled to understand how this happened.
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This also shook investor confidence in AI stocks. Reports of DeepSeek making its advancements with little cost shocked the market. Some traders have wondered if AI costs in the U.S. are overblown and questioned the efficiency of companies in this sector.
This news has the DJIA down 0.02% as of this writing. The index suffered larger losses in earlier trading but has recovered from that. It also hasn’t dropped nearly as much as rival indices, such as the S&P 500 ($SPX) or the Nasdaq 100 ($NDX).
Stocks Weighing on the DJIA Index Today
Turning to the TipRanks’ Dow Jones heatmap tool, investors can see the stocks pulling down the index today. As expected, tech stocks are keeping the index down with Microsoft (MSFT) falling 3.79% and Cisco (CSCO) dropping 5.17%. This is stopping the index from benefitting from wider gains across other sectors today.
How to Invest in the Dow Jones
Investors can’t take a direct stake in the Dow Jones as it’s only an index. Instead, they could buy shares of stocks listed on it. Those expecting Microsoft and Cisco to recover from today’s losses might use today’s drops as entry points.
Another option is buying shares of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track the DJIA, including those betting on and against its success. A popular one is SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust (DIA) but other ETFs are worth considering.
