Notes You Need for November 30: JNPR, NOK, Fed nominee, China PMI, semiconductor sell off, Bitcoin futures

In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don’t justify a full post. I’ve decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I’m calling Notes You Need. Here’s one item from today’s posts: “11:20 a.m.: Yesterday the semiconductor sector led the technology sell off with the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index (SOX) scoring nearly a 5% retreat with a drop of 4.39%. Recent outperforming stocks led the retreat with Nvidia (NVDA) off 6.78%, Micron Technology (MU) off 8.74%, Cypress Semiconductor (CY) off 6.99%, and Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC) off 5.95%. The last 5% pullback came in early August–which was followed by a strong sector rally of more than 25%. Good chance that today was occasioned by traders taking profits”