Dow on pace to enter bear market as S&P 500 trades just above June low in final hour of trading

The Dow Jones Industrial Average /zigman2/quotes/210598065/realtime DJIA +0.17% is on track to finish Monday's session in its first bear market in more than two years. Dow industrials were down by more than 200 points, or 0.8%, at 29,342 in the final hour of trading. A close at or below 29,439.72 would mark a pullback of at least 20% from the Dow's Jan. 4 record finish, meeting widely used criteria for entering a bear market. The last time the Dow was in a bear market was between March 11 and March 26 of 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 /zigman2/quotes/210599714/realtime SPX +0.80% traded just above its June lows on Monday, off by 0.6%, and the Nasdaq Composite /zigman2/quotes/210598365/realtime COMP +1.37% was slightly lower.

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