$Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM.US)$ joined $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$, $Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.US)$ , and $Broadcom (AVGO.US)$ in the hotlist of the day's most-active stock options as former President Donald Trump said Taiwan took the U.S.'s chip business.  
More than 250,000 TSMC stock options changed hands as of 12:49 p.m. in New York Wednesday, behind Nvidia's 3.98 million contracts, AMD' s 718,520 and Broadcom's 347,330, ...

The market pulled back Wednesday, as AI and semiconductor stocks pulled back hard while slower-growing stocks on the Dow Jones led the index to a fresh closing and intraday high.
After 4 pm EST, the $S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$ was down 1.39%, while the $Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC.US)$ slumped 2.7%. The   $Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI.US)$ fared better, rising 0.59%.
Overall 4400 equities advanced, while 7105 declined...