U.S. stocks traded lower this morning, with the Dow Jones dropping more than 300 points on Thursday.

Following the market opening Thursday, the Dow traded down 1.03% to 29,374.66 while the NASDAQ fell 1.65% to 10,869.59. The S&P 500 also fell, dropping, 1.23% to 3,673.20.

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Leading and Lagging Sectors

Health care shares fell by just 0.7% on Thursday.

In trading on Thursday, real estate shares dipped by 2.5%.

Top Headline

US initial jobless claims declined by 16,000 to 193,000 in the week ended September 24, recording the lowest since the end of April.

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Commodities

In commodity news, oil traded down 0.2% to $81.96, while gold traded down 0.3% at $1,664.80.

Silver traded down 0.5% to $18.78 on Thursday while copper rose 1.2% to $3.3990.

Euro zone

European shares were lower today. The eurozone’s STOXX 600 fell 1.4%, London’s FTSE 100 fell 1.5% while Spain’s IBEX 35 Index fell 1.7%. The German DAX dropped 1.5%, French CAC 40 fell 1.3% and Italy’s FTSE MIB Index fell 1.9%.

The consumer confidence indicator in the Eurozone dropped by 3.8 points to -28.8 in September, while economic sentiment indicator fell 3.6 points from a month ago to 93.7. Industrial producer prices in Italy climbed 40.1% year-over-year in August, while Spanish consumer price inflation eased to 9.0% year-over-year in September. UK car production surged 34% year-over-year to 49,901 units in August.

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COVID-19 Update

The U.S. has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world, reporting a total of 98,104,110 cases with around 1,083,790 deaths. India confirmed a total of at least 44,583,360 cases and 528,610 deaths, while France reported over 35,291,580 COVID-19 cases with 155,040 deaths. In total, there were at least 621,980,030 cases of COVID-19 worldwide with more than 6,545,810 deaths.