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guard your card.com. Here's your T&B Tech Minute for Wednesday, April 16th. I'm Victoria

Craig for the Wall Street Journal. Tech stocks led a sell off on on Wall Street today. The NASDAQ-closed down more than 3%.

Chip-making heavyweights, Nvidia, and advanced micro-devices weighed on the index,

falling 6.9% and 7.3% respectively. That's after the Trump administration said chips

specifically designed for the Chinese

market would now be subject to export controls. Also, spooking investors were comments from the

Federal Reserve Chair who said the central bank could face tradeoffs trying to shield the U.S.

economy from the fallout from the trade war. Meanwhile, Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML said today it saw weaker

than expected orders last quarter. It warned that President Trump's tariffs are creating

uncertainty in the wider industry and predicted that the situation will, quote, remain dynamic

for a while. ASML makes machines that produce chips to power artificial intelligence platforms and ones that are used in cars and smartphones.

Demand for the former has boomed while the latter has cooled. And finally, speculative and opportunistic. That's how Google is describing an antitrust claim filed against it in the UK today.

The potential $6.6 billion collective action lawsuit

was brought by UK organizations that published Google ads. They allege the alphabet-owned

company abused its dominance and overcharged for search advertising services. They also claim

Google's business terms violate competition law and that it gives its own advertising better functionality with its own products compared to rivals. Google's business terms violate competition law and that it gives its own advertising better

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