Stocks Extend Declines, Led Lower by Tech Shares

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The Dow industrials fell about 500 points, as a wave of selling spread beyond the technology sector, with the Nasdaq Composite down roughly 3%

U.S. stocks tumbled Thursday as a wave of selling spread beyond the technology sector, taking down swaths of the market.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 553 points, or 1.7%, after closing Wednesday at an all-time high. The S&P 500 shed 2.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 3.1%. Stocks’ momentum has faltered the past week as investors have faced a sharp and swift rise in bond yields. Money managers have broadly attributed the shift to bets on the economy picking up, something that should be a boon to corporate profits. But the swiftness with which yields have moved has also had another effect: ItInvestors rushed out of some of the hottest stocks of the year, sending shares of companies like Apple, Alphabet and Netflix down more than 2% apiece.

While relatively cheap corners of the market appeared to hold up well at first, with bank stocks and energy producers initially higher for the day, those gains dwindled in afternoon trading.

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