Also weighing on sentiment is ongoing pressure on emerging market currencies from a stronger U.S. dollar and threats of additional trade war action by President Donald Trump. InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips The Dow Jones Industrial Average is falling away from the psychologically critical 26,000 threshold on Friday after two weeks of struggling to hold it. But a 2.9% annual pace of wage inflation, highest since 2008, is raising fears of a more aggressive policy tightening pace from the Federal Reserve.