Stocks slip into the red at the close, Apple among biggest mega cap laggards of the day

Yahoo Finance's Jared Blikre weighs in on the market and sector actions ahead of the closing bell.

Video Transcript

- We're just minutes away from the closing bell. We'll take a look at the broad markets here. Mixed at the moment, just minutes away from the close. Let's get a deeper dive now with our very own Jared Blikre, at the interactive. Jared.

JARED BLIKRE: That's right 55 seconds to go. And let's take a look at the YFi Interactive, where things have slipped into the red. For the most part, you'll notice the Russell 2000 here is still green. But the Dow now down about 70 basis points had been the laggard most of the day. Now here's the sector action. We can see a few sectors still in the green. Materials been leading all day on a weaker US dollar. Health care and consumer discretionary also in the green.

But staples that's to the downside, moving to the downside about 1 and 3/4 of a point. Also tech and industrials now off. And let's take a look at the NASDAQ 100 where we see a mixed picture. You look to the left, that's a mega caps. Those are under pressure. Apple down another 2 and 1/2%. But some of the names on the right are quite interesting. Seeing Ark and Chinese names pick up today.