US stocks open lower as Nasdaq drops 0.83%

The Nasdaq's outsized decline relative to the Dow points to pressure concentrated in growth and technology names rather than a broad risk-off move, a distinction that matters for crypto and other risk-sensitive assets that tend to trade alongside tech sentiment. The dispersion across the three benchmarks suggests the session's weakness is not uniform, which is worth noting for anyone tracking cross-asset correlation. Whether the tech-heavy index underperforms into the close, or the gap narrows, is the open question.