A powerful rebound in semiconductor stocks lifted Wall Street on Monday, driving the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 sharply higher, as investors dumped defensive corners of the market in a broad risk-on rotation.
The session’s driving force was memory. A DRAM-sector surge rippled across chipmakers ahead of Samsung‘s quarterly sales updates and SK Hynix‘s planned U.S. listing this Friday, with the market betting the artificial-intelligence trade that has powered the bull run still has room to run.