[U.S. Stock Market Opens with Broad Declines in Major Indexes] BlockBeats reports that on July 1, according to BIT (bit.com) market data, U.S. stock markets opened with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.2%, the S&P 500 Index down 0.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite down 0.6%. Meta Platforms (META.O) rose 6%, reportedly building a cloud business to sell surplus AI computing power. Storage-related stocks declined, with SanDisk (SNDK.O) down 7.5%, Western Digital (WDC.O) down over 4%, and Micron Technology (MU.O) down 6%.