[U.S. stock market closed this morning with broad declines across the three major indices, SpaceX down 5.43%] BlockBeats news, July 18, according to (Bit.com) market data, U.S. stocks closed on Friday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average preliminarily down 0.77%, the S&P 500 Index down 1.07%, and the Nasdaq Composite down 1.4%. Chip stocks showed mixed performance: Western Digital (WDC.O) rose 2.23%, Seagate Technology (STX.O) rose 5.66%, SK Hynix ADR (SKHY.O) rose 1.13%, NVIDIA (NVDA.O) fell 2.21%, Meta Platforms (META.O) fell 2.79%, SpaceX (SPCX.O) fell 5.43%. Apple (AAPL.O) closed up 0.14%, with its market capitalization briefly surpassing NVIDIA during intraday trading.