On October 16, Direxion Daily Semiconductors Bull 3x Shares fell 5.26% in Pre-Market Trading to $101.66, with turnover of $322 million.

The move coincided with continued pressure on high-valuation technology and semiconductor shares after worsening US inflation data and hawkish Federal Reserve expectations weighed on risk sentiment. Recent trading in semiconductors, memory, and optical communications remained weak, with AMD, Marvell, and SanDisk among the names cited as declining, while the PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index stayed under pressure.

Direxion Daily Semiconductors Bull 3x Shares seeks daily investment results equal to 300% of the daily performance of the PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index, so declines in the underlying index can amplify losses in the fund.

The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in financial instruments, such as swap agreements, securities of the index, and ETFs that track the index, that, in combination, provide 3X daily leveraged exposure to the index, consistent with the fund's investment objective. The index is a rules-based, modified float-adjusted market capitalization-weighted index that tracks the performance of the thirty largest U.S. listed semiconductor companies. The fund is non-diversified.

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