shares of apple inc aapl were diving 36 in afternoon trading wednesday enough to pace the dow jones industrial averages djia decliners the decline comes amid a broad selloff in the technology sector and even though the technology behemoth didnt issue any press releases or file anything with the securities and exchange commission on wednesday the techheavy nasdaq composite comp sank 20 while the dow industrials fell 124 points or 04 the drop takes the stock below the march 14 closing low of 15062 and puts it on track for the first close below the 150 level since nov 11 2021 given that the march 29 recoveryhigh close of 17896 was lower than the jan 3 record close of 18201 the stock has now completed a bearish pattern of lower highs and lower lows which followers of the centuryold dow theory of market analysis say defines a downtrend the stock has declined 161 year to date while the dow has lost 118