On Friday, October 31, U.S. stocks ended the session in negative territory. The Dow Jones Industrial Average initially fell 1.09%, the S&P 500 dropped 1.82%, and the Nasdaq Composite slid 2.86%. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index took a sharp hit, plummeting 7.2%. Among individual stocks, Intel saw a steep decline of 28.58%, while SanDisk dropped 14.1%. Qualcomm and AMD also suffered significant losses, falling 11.12% and 10.88%, respectively. Micron Technology declined 5.3%, Nvidia lost 4.22%, and both Amazon and Google slipped 1.4%. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index edged down 0.28%, with Baidu falling 2.86% and Alibaba dropping 1.54%.
