Investors were awaiting key inflation data to be released on Thursday. Also Reuters noted “the churn of favored ‘meme’ stocks, or heavily shorted stocks involved in a social media-driven retail frenzy, continued its rotation, with Aethlon Medical soaring by 388.2%.” At the close of trade, the Dow was lower by 153 points or 0.4%. The S&P 500 index fell by 0.2%. And the Nasdaq index was lower by 13 points or 0.1%.