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of Slack Business Plus. Here's your closing bell brief for Wednesday, January 7th. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. stocks finished mostly lower today as investors balanced a resurgence in technology shares

against losses among home builder, big banks, and defense stocks. The Dow dropped 0.9%, snapping a three-day winning streak that had marked its strongest start to a new year in over two decades.

The S&P 500 fell 0.3%.

The NASDAQ managed a gain of 0.2%, while the broader market felt the weight of falling energy prices

and a weaker-than-expected private sector jobs report.

Among individual companies,

homebuilder stocks tumbled during afternoon trading. Investors sold off the sector following social media posts from the president proposing to ban large investors from buying single-family homes,

a move that markets worry will negatively impact corporate profits. Ventech's bioscience's shares surged for a second consecutive day, ending up nearly 37%.

The rally followed reports that Eli Lilly is in advanced discussions to acquire the biotechnology company for more than $1 billion.

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