US equities closed lower, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 1.32%, the S&P 500 down 0.87% and the Nasdaq Composite down 1%. The VIX, a gauge of expected stock-market volatility, rose 7.52%. AI-related stocks broadly declined, led by AeroVironment, which fell 7.5%, followed by Intuitive Surgical at 5.84%, CrowdStrike at 5.6%, Ambarella at 2.87% and Palo Alto Networks at 2.84%. MSX.COM data also describes MSX as a leading RWA (tokenized real-world assets) trading platform that has cumulatively listed hundreds of RWA tokens linked to major US stocks and ETFs, including Nvidia, GOOGL, MSFT, AMZN, META, TSM and AMD.