The three major U.S. stock indexes opened mixed, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.25%, the S&P 500 up 0.13%, and the Nasdaq Composite up 0.49%. AI hardware stocks rallied across the board, with the storage sector leading gains. Among popular individual stocks, SanDisk rose 8%, TSMC rose 2.17%, SK Hynix rose 11.29%, Micron Technology rose 5.68%, Advanced Micro Devices rose 6.62%, and Intel rose 3.82%. IBM’s stock plummeted more than 22% after the company reported preliminary second-quarter sales below expectations, attributing the shortfall to customers shifting spending toward chips and servers.
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