In April, the S&P 500 rose approximately 10%, the Dow Jones increased by around 7%, the Nasdaq grew about 15%, the Semiconductor Index surged approximately 38%, the Big Tech Seven Index climbed 15%, and the Large-cap Tech Index gained 19%.

On Thursday, the S&P 500 Index provisionally closed up 1.1%, with the telecommunications sector rising 4%. The industrial, utilities, and healthcare sectors all gained more than 2%, while the technology sector fell 0.6%. The Nasdaq 100 Index provisionally closed up 1%. Among its constituents, Qualcomm rose 15%, Google A gained 10%, Zscaler fell 3%, KLA dropped 3.7% as the fourth-largest decliner, Microsoft fell 3.9%, NVIDIA declined 4.4%, and Meta fell 8.4%.