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Text: Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL, -3.53% were diving 3.6% in afternoon trading Wednesday, enough to pace the Dow Jones Industrial Average's DJIA, -0.29% decliners. The decline comes amid a broad selloff in the technology sector, and even though the technology behemoth didn't issue any press releases or file anything with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.
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