It was a mixed day on Wall Street, with the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) closing in the red. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) closed higher, but only by 10 points. Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre recaps the action at the close while Defiance ETFs CEO and CIO Sylvia Jablonski weighs in on the day's trading.

Wednesday’s session closes with the NASDAQ Composite Index at 17,192.60. The total shares traded for the NASDAQ was over 4.56 billion. Declining stocks led advancers by 1.32 to 1 ratio. There ...

A steep slide in shares of semiconductor companies was dragging on the Nasdaq Composite on Tuesday afternoon, putting the tech-heavy index on track for a rare underperformance versus the Dow Jones Industrial Average.