US stocks open, three major indices mixed, storage sector broadly rises
TechFlow news, August 17, according to Bitget market data, at the US market open, the Dow Jones fell 0.3%, the S&P 500 Index opened nearly flat, and the Nasdaq rose 0.2%. Storage concept stocks rose, Micron Technology (MU.O) up 3.6%, SanDisk (SNDK.O) up 4.5%. Alphabet (GOOG.O) up 0.2%, Berkshire continued to increase holdings in Alphabet in Q2. Alibaba (BABA.N) rose 1.6%, the company sold its gaming business for $1.5 billion.
Semiconductor and Storage sectors generally rose, including: Marvell Technology (MRVL.O) up 3.90%; NVIDIA (NVDA) up 0.74%; Intel (INTC) up 0.80%; AMD (AMD) up 0.01%; Broadcom (AVGO) up 0.81%; Qualcomm (QCOM) down 0.27%; Seagate Technology (STX) up 2.01%; Western Digital (WDC) up 3.10%; SanDisk (SNDK) up 4.50%; SK Hynix (SKHY.O) up 4.20%.
In addition, Crypto concept stocks generally rose, including: MicroStrategy (MSTR) up 0.59%; Coinbase (COIN) down 0.20%; Circle (CRCL) down 0.43%; BitMine Immersion (BMNR) up 0.97%; SharpLink Gaming (SBET) up 1.42%.
