03:28 PM EST, 11/19/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Tech stocks were higher late Wednesday afternoon, with the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) rising 0.9% and the SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD) adding 1.7%.

The Philadelphia Semiconductor index increased 2.1%.

In corporate news, Amazon's ( AMZN ) cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services and Saudi Arabian AI company Humain plan to deploy and manage up to 150,000 AI accelerators at a data center facility in Riyadh, the companies said Wednesday. Amazon ( AMZN ) shares were down less than 0.1%.