Major indexes were slightly lower Thursday morning after a couple of lackluster days for the U.S. stock market that followed a big post-election rally, as investors await comments this afternoon from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

The Dow’s declines picked up in early afternoon trading as industrial and health care stocks led the market lower. The blue-chip index was down 159 points, or 0.4%. Only 12 of the index’s stocks were on the rise,