Semiconductor Stocks Post Worst Three-Day Plunge Since 2014
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Semiconductor stocks tumbled for a third consecutive session on Friday as an upbeat earnings report from Broadcom Inc. proved no match for trade war and macro-economic anxieties.
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 3.7 percent, making the three-day slide the worst since October 2014. The 30-member group is down 9 percent over that period. Broadcom was the only company in the index to gain on Friday as investors remain worried about relations between the U.S. and China in the aftermath of the arrest of Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Wanzhou Meng.