[U.S. Stock Market Close: Mixed Performance Among Major Indexes, SanDisk Drops Over 10%] Jinshi Data, July 25 — U.S. stocks closed on Friday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average preliminarily up 0.45%, the S&P 500 Index up 0.050%, and the Nasdaq Composite down 0.64%. The storage sector weakened, with SanDisk (SNDK.O) down 10.79%, SK Hynix (SKHY.O) down 8.81%, and Micron Technology (MU.O) down 6.99%. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 4.25%, Intel (INTC.O) dropped 7.89%. IBM (IBM.N) rose 3.64%, and Apple (AAPL.O) gained 3.53%. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index fell 0.68%, Alibaba (BABA.N) dropped 1.67%, and Baidu (BIDU.O) declined 1.91%.