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U.S. stocks closed sharply lower Thursday, pulled down by tumbling shares of big technology firms, despite a strong report on quarterly economic growth. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.76% shed about 251 points, or 0.8%, ending near 32,784, according to preliminary FactSet data. The S&P 500 index SPX, -1.18% closed down 1.2% and the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -1.76% dropped 1.8%, sinking the tech-heavy index deeper in correction territory.
Stocks continued to feel pressure from skittishness around third-quarter earnings and about the so-called Magnificent Seven stocks. Shares of Meta Platforms META, -3.73%, Alphabet GOOG, -2.55%, Microsoft MSFT, -3.75%, Nvidia NVDA, -3.48%, Tesla TSLA, -3.14%, Apple AAPL, -2.46% and Amazon.com AMZN, -1.50% each ended lower Thursday, while the S&P 500’s communication services sector fell 2.6%, according to FactSet. U.S. GDP was pegged at 4.
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