while the big 3 stock market indexes are all falling at at least 05 readings of exchange data suggest the market of stocks is actually rising the number of advancing stocks are outnumbering decliners by 1804 to 1077 on the new york stock exchange nyse and by 2220 to 1658 on the nasdaq exchange and volume in advancing stocks makes up 679 of total volume on the big board and 549 of total volume on the nasdaq meanwhile the dow jones industrial average djia is down 148 points or 05 the sp 500 spx is shedding 05 and the nasdaq composite comp is losing 06 more in line with the market internals the russell 2000 rut index of smallcapitalization companies is up 02