PANews reported on August 15 that the US stock market continued to rise, with the Nasdaq's increase expanding to 2% and the S&P 500 index now up 1.3%. Among the star technology stocks, Cisco (CSCO.O) rose 8%, Tesla (TSLA.O) rose about 6.5%, Micron Technology (MU.O) rose 5.4%, Amazon (AMZN.O) rose nearly 4%, ASML (ASML.O) rose 3.7%, and Nvidia (NVDA.O) rose 3.5%.

Among blockchain concept stocks, MicroStrategy rose 3.63%, Hut 8 rose 5.2%, Marathon Digital rose 5.81%, Coinbase rose 2.5%, and Riot Platforms rose 2.88%.