On July 1, Corning fell 6.23% in regular trading, trading at $232.42/share, with turnover of $404 million. The decline came as the broader storage and optical communications sector experienced a widespread sell-off, compounded by concentrated profit-taking following the stock's substantial short-term rally.

On the sector front, memory and optical communication stocks declined broadly in the session, with Micron Technology down 3%, SanDisk down over 4%, Western Digital down 2%, and Seagate down over 1%. In the optical communications space, Marvell Technology fell 2%, while Coherent and Lumentum each dropped over 2%, indicating broad-based sector weakness.

Corning had surged over 15% on June 29 driven by the dual catalysts of FTSE Russell index rebalancing and the launch of its GlassBridge glass-based optical interconnect technology, followed by an additional 3%+ gain on June 30. The massive short-term cumulative advance created significant profit-taking pressure, which materialized alongside the sector-wide correction.

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