Techs slide again on year-end tax-loss selling

Technology stocks kept sliding in late afternoon trading yesterday, pushing the tech-laced Nasdaq toward its weakest performance…

Technology stocks kept sliding in late afternoon trading yesterday, pushing the tech-laced Nasdaq toward its weakest performance ever as investors offloaded more sagging issues for tax purposes on the year's last trading day.

The Nasdaq was led lower by heavyweights like Internet gear maker Cisco Systems and software titan Microsoft.

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