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The S&P 500 index preliminarily closed up 0.1%, with the healthcare sector rising about 2.3%, consumer staples, energy, materials, and real estate sectors at least rising about 1.1%, the telecommunications sector up 0.5%, and the technology sector down 0.6%.
The Nasdaq 100 index preliminarily closed down 0.3%. Among the constituents, Applovin preliminarily closed down 8.7%, Micron Technology, Lam Research, Marvell Technology, Arm Holdings, Kioxia, and NVIDIA fell by up to 5%, Strategy (MSTR) fell 2.6%, Honeywell rose 2.3%, Gilead Sciences rose 3.8%, Amgen rose 4.5%, and Dexcom rose 5.9%.
Merck preliminarily closed up 4.8%, Amgen rose 4.5%, Nike, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's, and Disney rose over 2%, leading the Dow components, while NVIDIA performed the worst.
Among chip concept stocks, Onto fell 5.6%, related company Coherent fell 5.5%, Nanosys Semiconductor fell 5.5%, and Micron fell 5%