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This week, the S&P rose approximately 1.7%, the Dow Jones rose 2.3%, the Nasdaq rose 1.9%, the semiconductor index rose 4%, and the bank index rose 2.2%. The S&P 500 index preliminarily closed up 0.7%, with the materials, utilities, consumer discretionary, industrials, and consumer staples sectors rising over 1%, the technology sector rising 0.9%, and the healthcare sector falling 0.5%. The Nasdaq 100 index preliminarily closed up 1%, among its constituents, Intel preliminarily closed down 10.9%, Lam Research rose 9%, Applied Materials rose 7.4%, ASML ADR, Seagate Technology, Western Digital, and nuclear power stocks CEG rose over 6%, Datadog fell 4.1%, CoStar fell 4.7%, and Strategy fell 5.6%. Home Depot preliminarily closed up 4.3%, SHW rose 3.4%, Boeing rose 3%, Chevron rose 1.8%, Coca-Cola rose 1.7%, leading the Dow Jones constituents, UnitedHealth fell 0.9%, Amgen fell 1.2%, and American Express fell 1.8%
