Financials, technology stocks pressure S&P 500

Financials and technology stocks slid on Wednesday, contributing to the $S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$ ′s 0.8% decline.
Falling shares of $Lincoln National (LNC.US)$ , $Citigroup (C.US)$ , $Citizens Financial (CFG.US)$ and Fi $Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB.US)$ contributed to a 1.2% loss in the benchmark index’s financial sector.
Elsewhere, popular technology names and chipmakers, including $Alphabet-C (GOOG.US)$ , $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ , $Analog Devices (ADI.US)$ and Intuit, contributed to a 1% decline in the communications services and information technology sectors.
$Tesla (TSLA.US)$ shed 3.4% and cruise stocks Royal Caribbean, Carnival and Norwegian Cruise Line fell at least 3% each. The drop in shares pressured the consumer discretionary sector, $SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY.US)$ $Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ.US)$