Chip Stocks Power Tech to Best 3-Day Rally in Five Weeks


Chip stocks led a tech-driven rally as Nasdaq rose over 1%; megacaps outperformed, small caps kept pace, energy slid about 2%, software mixed with Salesforce down and CrowdStrike, Oracle up.

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The clip highlights chip stocks driving a three-day tech rally while megacaps carried the market and energy lagged as oil cooled. The most striking detail is that semiconductors, a sector tied closely to demand for AI and data-center gear, led the gains even as the broader equal-weight S&P underperformed, showing concentrated strength rather than a broad market uptrend. The segment names specific movers, Tesla, Broadcom, Oracle, Salesforce, CrowdStrike, so viewers can map sector leadership to individual names rather than abstract indexes.