The sell-off in tech stocks came despite cooling inflation at both the retail and wholesale levels, which eased fears of an Federal Reserve interest rate hike.
Major deals among tech giants and the successful Wall Street debut of SK Hynix shares boosted stock markets.
Officials unveiled the mechanism for private equity gifts to the child accounts, which launch on July Fourth.
From mega-cap to small-cap, U.S. stocks survived and thrived a tumultuous first half of 2026.
Investors directed funds into other sectors rather than pulling them out of equities altogether.