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With almost half of the components of the Bot Index experiencing double digit declines during the ‘tariff’ week. The Bot Index fell 11.51% while the S & P 500 fell just over 9%. The worst performance within the bots included:
Oceaneering International -20.65%
Zebra Technologies -20.42%
Novanta -19.34%
Fanuc -18.46%
Yaskawa Electric -18.14
Cognex Corp. -16.86%
Textron -16.82%
NVIDIA -14%
Apple -13.55%
Faro -13.06%
Joby -12.23%
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Teledyne -11.89%
Immersion Corp. -11.69%

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