US equity markets ended mostly to the downside overnight as the S&P 500’s September struggles continued following weak labour market data - Dow was the outlier rising -38-points or +0.09%. Intel Corp (down -3.33%) was amongst the worst performers in the 30-stock index, amid a broader selloff of chip stocks as well as Reuters reporting that recent tests of the chip giant's most advanced manufacturing process conducted by Broadcom (AVGO) failed.