The tech-heavy Nasdaq led markets lower on Thursday. Richard Drew/AP New York —

US stocks were lower Thursday as investors sold shares in technology companies and assessed how long it might take for economic data releases to be rebooted after the end of the government shutdown.

The Dow was down 650 points, or 1.35%. The broader S&P 500 fell 1.67%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slid 2.57%.

The House on Wednesday evening approved a funding measure that had been passed by the Senate. The bill was signed by President Donald Trump in the late evening, officially ending the longest US government shutdown in history.

Now Wall Street is focused on the backlog of government data that was delayed because of the shutdown — and how it might impact the Federal Reserve’s outlook for th

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