This allows Dow to manufacture at a significant cost advantage to marginal cost producers that rely on higher-cost crude oil-based feedstocks to make the same products. Dow’s commodity chemicals are ...

Now the S&P 500 is struggling to hold on, too. The market benchmark erased earlier gains but was back up 0.1%. The Nasdaq Composite was down 0.3%. The Dow was up just 41 points, or 0.1%. The S&P’s ...