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It's Wednesday, February 4th.
I'm Alex Oselev for the Wall Street Journal.
This is the PM edition of What's News,
the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.
Another day, another tech sell-off.
While the Dow finished up half a percent today, the Nasdaq closed down one and a half percent,
its fourth down session in the past five trading days.
The S&P fell two.
Markets reporter Hannah Aaron Lange says the declines reflect the influence the big tech companies have on the indexes.
This is once again really concentrated in the tech sector.
Most S&P 500 sectors are up today.
That's basically telling us that these big tech stocks that have such a huge impact on the index overall,
because they're enormous companies, are way on the index.
Names like AMD, which is a chip maker, Palantir.
It seems like investors are reconsidering the AI trade.