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Nasdaq 100 falls 0.6% as traders wait on Nvidia and hot July PCE revives September rate-hike bets. Energy leads, gold sinks 1.3% to $4,599.
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Cisco highlighted a major enterprise customer replacing rival networking & firewall vendors: CSCO may be gaining traction in Arista's market.
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Nasdaq 100 falls 0.6% as traders wait on Nvidia and hot July PCE revives September rate-hike bets. Energy leads, gold sinks 1.3% to $4,599.
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