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This week, the S&P 500 index rose approximately 0.1%, the Dow Jones increased about 0.3%, and the Nasdaq fell 0.5%. On Friday, the S&P 500 index initially closed down 0.1%, the materials sector fell 1%, the financial and telecommunications sectors dropped 0.9%, the technology sector rose 0.6%, and the energy sector increased 1.3%. The Nasdaq 100 index initially closed roughly flat, with components such as MicroStrategy (MSTR) down 4.2%, PayPal, Netflix, and Lam Research down over 3%, Da Vinci Surgical Robot, Dexcom, and Coherent down over 2%, NVIDIA up 1.7%, Diamondback Energy up 3.5%, Warner Bros. Discovery up 3.9%, Micron Technology up 4.2%, and DoorDash up 6.6%. UnitedHealth initially closed down 3.4%, Nike and American Express fell over 2%, leading the declines among Dow components, while Chevron, Microsoft, and Salesforce rose up to 1.4%, alongside NVIDIA leading the gains