The SPX fell 0.29%, helped by a higher-than-expected February producer price index that also lifted the dollar and Treasury yields. The cryptocurrency market as a whole is down, with BTC and ETH down 5.66% and 3.77%, respectively, over the past 24 hours.

The leader today is NEAR, which jumped 6.0% after expanding the Near protocol to five shards, increasing network throughput and scalability.