08:55 AM EDT, 06/27/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Technology stocks were flat to lower premarket Thursday as the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) was inactive and the SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD) was down 1.9% recently.

i3 Verticals ( IIIV ) rose past 18% after saying it agreed to sell its merchant of record payments business and associated proprietary technology to Payroc for $440 million in an all-cash deal.