On July 15, HP Inc. declined 5.01% in regular trading, trading at $23.38/share, with turnover of $91.19 million. The decline came amid a broad selloff in the Technology Hardware sector and following news that India's Competition Commission imposed a fine of approximately 1.27 billion rupees (roughly $12-13 million) on HP's Indian subsidiary for bid-rigging in government procurement projects.

According to regulatory filings, the CCI found that HP India coordinated with authorized distributors between 2017 and 2020 to manipulate bids on government e-procurement platforms involving laptops, desktops, workstations, and printing supplies. The case originated from HP India's own leniency application. Separately, recent industry data showed HP's global PC shipments fell 9% year-over-year to 13 million units in Q2, losing ground to Apple which grew 15.9%.

Within the Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals sector, the broad weakness was pronounced: Dell Technologies fell 12.96%, SanDisk declined 12.26%, Western Digital dropped 8.27%, and Seagate fell 7.60%, while Apple rose 3.3%.

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