How the market's bad breadth may have been a harbinger of Tuesday sell

The market's weak breadth is starting to catch up to it. Stocks fell Tuesday , as a pullback in artificial intelligence names weighed on the major averages. As of midday trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much as 459.62 points before cutting those losses. The S & P 500 dropped 0.7%, while the Nasdaq Composite slid 1.7%. Palantir tumbled more than 7%. A possible harbinger for this slump may have been the lack of stocks moving higher. On Monday, for example, the S & P 500 ended the trading session higher, even though more than 300 of its constituents closed in negative territory. That reliance on just a handful of tech names has more investors nervous a correction could be near, if the big AI names fail to sustain their leadership or run out of momentum. "Some clients have fla