U.S. stocks closed, with optical communications leading gains, semiconductors and storage sectors advancing, and LITE and AMAT both up over 5%.

According to BIT (bit.com) market data, after Tuesday’s U.S. stock market close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.26%, the S&P 500 declined 0.17%, and the Nasdaq dropped 0.09%. Optical communication concept stocks led gains, with Lumentum (LITE) up 5.66%, Corning (GLW) up 4.70%, Marvell Technology (MRVL) up 4.51%, Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) up 3.98%, and Coherent (COHR) up 3.46%. Most semiconductor stocks advanced: Applied Materials (AMAT) rose 5.19%, Marvell Technology (MRVL) gained 4.51%, KLA (KLAC) climbed 3.89%, Arm (ARM) increased 3.65%, and ASML Holding (ASML) rose 3.56%. Storage stocks mostly rose: SK Hynix (SKHY) was up 2.62%, Micron Technology (MU) gained 1.05%, SanDisk (SNDK) climbed 0.99%, Western Digital (WDC) edged up 0.06%; Seagate Technology (STX) fell 0.88%.