Rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc AMD.O eased 2.4%, while Nvidia Corp NVDA.O and Applied Materials Inc AMAT.O fell 1.9% and 3.3%, respectively. (Reporting by Bansari Mayur Kamdar in Bengaluru Editing by Vinay Dwivedi) ((BansariMayur.Kamdar@thomsonreuters.com; Twitter: @BansariKamdar;)) The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. Investors also await personal consumption expenditures (PCE) data, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge, due at 0830 a.m. EST, ahead of the central bank's meeting next week.