 an incredibly bad one for another. It was a midweek tale of two markets. The Dow closed up over 41,000 points Wednesday for the first time ever. The composite's been on a run for a number of reasons, from politics to signs that the Fed may finally be ready to seriously think about cutting interest rates. The Nasdaq, meanwhile, retreated sharply toward the close for its worst day in over a year. The tech-heavy index bogged down by worries about worsening relations with China, which hit chipmaker stocks like ASML and NVIDIA for losses.