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The S&P 500 was up 0.1%, even though most stocks in the index were lower, a day after squeaking out its fourth straight gain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 29 points, or 0.1%, at 28,218, as of 9:53 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was up 0.4%.

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google’s parent company have been some of the market’s strongest stocks through the pandemic, much as they’ve been for the last several years, on investors’ expectations that they can continue to grow almost regardless of what the economy does.