1.   Broader market indicators, which include more of the riskier tech stocks, fell.

2.   Broader market indicators, which include more of the riskier tech stocks, struggled to hold smaller gains.

3.   Broader market indicators, which include many riskier tech stocks, fell.

4.   Broader market indicators, which include more of the riskier tech stocks, struggled, sometimes in vain, to hold smaller gains.

5.   But broader market indicators, which include more of the riskier tech stocks, failed to hold smaller gains.

6.   Investors again sold off both riskier tech issues and safer, so-called defensive issues, which shows their wariness over making big commitments to the stock market in general.

7.   Investors bid down the safer stocks like drug issues after months of running them up when riskier tech sectors fell out of favor.

8.   Investors bid down the safer stocks like drug issues, which had rallied in recent months while riskier tech sectors fell out of favor.

9.   Investors abroad sold off riskier tech issues and sent safer stocks, such as those in the oil and consumer brand sectors, higher.

10.   Prospects of a robust turnaround would likely prompt investors to buy up riskier tech shares.