TREE NEWS reports: The S&P 500 closed provisionally up 0.2%, with health care rising 2.3% and real estate adding 1.6%, while technology fell 0.3% and telecom dropped 1%. The Nasdaq 100 slipped 0.1%, as Arm Holdings fell 3% and Lam Research, KLA, Applied Materials, Cadence, Constellation Energy, Netflix and Meta each lost at least 1.7%. Semiconductor and memory-chip indices declined 0.3% and 0.5%, respectively.
S&P 500 Edges Up 0.2% as Health Care and Real Estate Gain, Tech Slips
The split matters more than the headline gain: defensive sectors like health care and real estate led while tech and telecom lagged, a rotation signature rather than broad risk appetite. The breadth of chip-equipment weakness—several names down together alongside softer semiconductor and memory indices—points to sector-specific pressure rather than a single-stock story. Whether this defensive leadership persists or reverses as tech stabilizes is the open question worth tracking.
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