European tech stocks fall to six-month low, join in global sell-off
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LONDON, Aug 2 (Reuters) -European technology stocks fell to their lowest level in over six months on Friday, amid a broad global equity sell-off and as investors dumped semiconductor stocks following disappointing earnings from Intel.
The STOXX Europe 600 technology index .SX8P was last down 3.6% to its lowest since January. The broader STOXX 600 index .STOXX index was down 1.3%.
Shares in chipmakerIntel INTC.O slumped 20% premarket after the company suspended its dividend and said it would cut 15% of its workforce as it grapples with a pullback in spending on traditional data center semiconductors and a focus on AI chips.
That helped push European peers lower, with ASM International ASMI.AS, BE SemiconductorBESI.AS and ASMLASML.AS all shedding between 6.6% and 9.2%.
Amazon shares are also down around 8 in premarket trading after reporting slowing online sales growth.
Global equity markets tumbled around the globe, with the S&P 500 .SPX ending Thursday's session down 1.4%. .N
Tech stocks tumbled in Asia earlier in the day, contributing to a 5.8% fall in Japan's Nikkei, .N225 and a 3.65% drop in Korea's KOSPI .KS11 benchmark. .T .KS
Reporting by Samuel Indyk, editing by Alun John
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