Stocks Pressured by Weakness in Software and Tech Stocks
Stocks were pressured as software and tech shares fell despite expectations for strong Q2 earnings. Bloomberg Intelligence projects Q2 earnings up 23%, with AI spending driving nearly 60% of S&P 500 EPS growth. Datadog, Salesforce, Palantir, and others declined. Memory chipmakers dropped after Sandisk and Western Digital forecast weaker revenue. Rate-hike odds and bond yields also moved.

