The opening bell: Major indices trading lower

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• Dow industrial average is down -105.55 points or -0.32% at 32949.97
• S&P index down -21.51 points or -0.52% at 4124.06
• NASDAQ index down -75.54 points or -0.60% at 12484.70

Nvidia shares are trading down $6 or -1.96% at $301

• Alphabet shares are trading down -1.17%.
• Microsoft shares are trading down -0.15%
• Apple shares are up 0.19%.
• Meta-shares are up 0.30%
• Amazon is up 1%

The KRE regional bank ETF is down $0.24 or -0.59% $40.63

In the US debt market, yields are mixed/little changed:

• 2 year yield 4.291% +0.8 basis points
• 5 year yield 3.746% unchanged
• 10 year yield 3.688%, -1 basis points
• 30 year yield 3.938% -1.4 basis points

At 1 PM, the U.S. Treasury will auction off 5 year notes.

A look around other markets shows:

• Crude oil up $1.43 or 1.99% at $74.35
• Gold is unchanged at $1975
• Silver is down $0.12 at $23.32
• Bitcoin is down on a day at $26,675. It was trading at around $27,230 at 5 PM yesterday