Communications services companies fell as the second-quarter boom in large-cap growth stocks cooled off a little.

"Growth continues to dominate Value," said strategists at brokerage Bank of America Global Research.

"Growth and mega caps [are] melting up like the 1990s." The Los Angeles Unified School District voted to ban cellphones during the entire school day, becoming the largest school system to take such a step in an era of concern about youth cellphone use and social-media addiction.


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