Stocks Ended Lower, Weighed by Tech Shares

U.S. stocks ended holiday-shortened session in the red on Tuesday, weighed down by Apple, Facebook and other technology stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 132.36 points, or 0.45%, to 24,174.82. The S&P 500 was down 13.49 points, or 0.49%, to 2,713.22. The Nasdaq Composite declined 65.01 points, or 0.86%, to 7,502.67.

Shares of Facebook Inc fell 2 percent on Tuesday, after a report that a federal probe on the data breach linked to Cambridge Analytica had been broadened and would include more government agencies.

A Chinese court temporarily banned Micron Technology Inc. chip sales, cutting the U.S. company off from the world’s largest semiconductor market, Taiwanese rival United Microelectronics Corp. said.

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