Pre-market indexes are down across the board this morning, following a mixed Wednesday session which saw the Nasdaq fall back but the Dow close at a new all-time high. This morning, the Dow is -118 points at this hour, -0.24%, the S&P 500 is -20, -0.30%, the Nasdaq is down another -94 points, -0.37%, while the small-cap Russell 2000 is -15, -0.62%. The shadow of high AI spending continues to hover over market participants.We were hoping that by now the federal government, finally back open, would be availab ...