Published October 22, 2014 9:45am EDT | Updated January 8, 2015 2:40pm EST

Yahoo, Broadcom, EMC Spur Tech Trading Early

Tech stocks opened with mixed results Wednesday, with gains from Yahoo Inc. and Broadcom Corp. being countered by losses from the likes of EMC Corp. and VMware Inc. . Reaction to earnings reports was at the root of all the tech leaders' market performance. The Nasdaq Composite Index , which includes many big-name tech stocks, was off by 6 points at 4,412.