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US chip and memory stocks slid in a fresh bout of Wall Street tumult, with investors pulling away from shares in companies that have led markets higher this year.

According to Financial Times, “US chip and memory stocks slide in fresh bout of Wall Street tumult” and the paper states that “Investors pull away from shares in companies that have led markets higher this year.” These two lines encapsulate the scope of the source text used for this fact-check.

The source text supplied consists of the headline and the subhead quoted above. Those lines report a slide in US chip and memory stocks and the withdrawal of investor interest from companies that had been prominent contributors to market gains earlier in the year. No additional companies, figures, dates, locations beyond “US,” or market measures are named in the provided source excerpt.

This fact-check keeps only the elements that are present in the source: that US chip and memory stocks slid; that the episode is described as a “fresh bout of Wall Street tumult”; and that investors are reported to have pulled away from shares in companies that have led markets higher this year. Any wording in the draft that suggested specific numerical impacts, specific companies, causal mechanisms, or forecasts is not supported by the supplied source text and therefore has been omitted or aligned exactly with the source wording above.

Where the draft repeats or expands on the reporting beyond the headline and subhead, those extensions have been removed unless they directly mirror the Financial Times wording included in the source excerpt. The link to the Financial Times has been preserved exactly as supplied.

No additional information has been added that is not present in the FT lines quoted. The content here reflects only what is contained in the provided source text.

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