Dow Climbs 1.3%; Twitter Down 5%

Vice President Josh Jones has the market analysis for Monday, July 9. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ Composite all advanced, with index gains of 1.3%, 0.9% and 0.9%, respectively. Tesla rose 3% despite its recent cash-flow struggles; and Starbucks posted a nearly 2% gain in response to its highly publicized plastic straw phase-out and outgoing Executive Chairman Howard Schultz’s comments on Chinese expansion. Conversely, Twitter closed the day down 5% following recent reports questioning the validity of as many as 70 million of its user accounts.