Wall Street indexes end red with tech dragging most
Main U.S. indexes end red: Dow off most, down ~0.9%
Healthcare leads S&P 500 sector gains; Energy weakest group
Dollar up; bitcoin rallies ~5%; gold off ~2%; crude off ~3%
U.S. 10-Year Treasury yield rises to ~4.24%
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WALL STREET INDEXES END RED WITH TECH DRAGGING MOST
Wall Street's three major indexes ended Friday's session lower with technology .SPLRCT providing the biggest drag among the S&P 500's .SPX 11 major industry sectors.
Market watchers were taken aback by a global technology outage which halted flights and disrupted multiple industries including healthcare, banking, broadcasting and trading.
Services were coming back online on Friday but the outage - caused by a software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike CRWD.O, whose 20,000 subscribers included Amazon.com AMZN.O and Microsoft MSFT.O - put a spotlight on the world's dependence on interconnected technologies. CrowdStrike shares ended down 11%, while Microsoft lost 0.7%.
After very recently hitting a record high, the Philadelphia semiconductor index .SOX closed down 3% on the day and registered an 8.8% drop for the week, which was its deepest since mid-April.
For the week, the S&P 500 fell 1.96% while the Nasdaq composite .IXIC slid 3.7%, both registering their biggest weekly percentage declines since mid April. But the Dow .DJI added 0.7%, for its third weekly gain in a row.
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