The Dow is up roughly 0.3%, versus a fall of 3.11% for the Nasdaq. If it holds, the Dow's 3.41 percentage point outperformance would be its strongest versus the Nasdaq since Nov. 9, 2020, according to Dow Jones Market Data, when the blue-chip gauge outpaced the tech-heavy index by 4.47 percentage points.

DeepSeek topped the Apple App Store chart and sparked fears the Chinese company was quickly catching up with OpenAI's ChatGPT while costing far less.

NVIDIA market cap loses over $600 billion. NVIDIA's market cap was about $465 billion during the Opening Bell, as NVIDIA shares slipped around 13 per cent during early morning dea