Tech stocks boost S&P 500 Index

Republic Technologies

15/10/2019 18:13

** Shares of Microsoft Corp  MSFT.O , Facebook Inc  FB.O ,
Amazon.com Inc  AMZN.O  and Alphabet Inc  GOOGL.O  up between
1.4% and 3.5% 
    ** Stocks lift S&P 500 Index  .SPX  by 1.1% 
    ** Chip makers Xilinx Inc  XLNX.O , Nvidia Corp  NVDA.O ,
Micron Technology Inc  MU.O , Intel Corp  INTC.O , Broadcom Inc
 AVGO.O , Applied Materials Inc  AMAT.O , Texas Instruments Inc
 TXN.O , Qualcomm Inc  QCOM.O  and Advanced Micro Devices Inc
 AMD.O  also up between 0.8% and 6.5%
    ** Payment processing companies Mastercard Inc  MA.N ,
PayPal Holdings Inc  PYPL.O  and Visa Inc  V.N  also up between
0.7% and 1.2%
    ** HP Inc  HPQ.N  also up 1.9% at $16.86
    ** Stocks are pushed up the S&P 500 Information Technology
(Sector)  .SPLRCT  by 1.1%

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