(Reuters) – Wall Street was set to bounce back on Tuesday, as China stepped in to steady the yuan and investors sought beaten-down technology stocks, a day after Wall Street’s main indexes racked up their steepest one-day percentage fall of the year.

The benchmark S&P 500 .SPX and Nasdaq .IXIC lost at least 3% each on Monday, their sixth straight day of losses, as China let the yuan drop sharply in what was seen as a retaliation to President Donald Trump’s threat to slap a new round of tariffs on Chinese imports last week.

Fears of an escalating trade war were fanned further after U.S. Treasury Department labeled Beijing a currency manipulator late on Monday.

“The fact that China stabilized its currency gives investors some hope that this won’t accelerate into a bigger problem,” said Rick Meckler, partner at Cherry Lane Investments, a family investment office in New Vernon, New Jersey.

“Any positive response by either side that suggests some willingness to negotiate is really going to be taken well by investors.”

At 8:28 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis 1YMcv1 were up 218 points, or 0.85%. S&P 500 e-minis EScv1 were up 24.25 points, or 0.86% and Nasdaq 100 e-minis NQcv1 were up 75.75 points, or 1.03%.

Of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial components .DJI, 29 were trading higher before the bell.

Shares of technology companies, which have a big exposure to China, were also higher.

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) rose 1.0% after three days of heavy losses, while shares of semiconductor companies – Intel Corp (INTC.O), Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O) and Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) – rose between 1.1% and 2%.

Industrial bellwethers Boeing Co (BA.N) and Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) rose about 0.6% each.

Among other stocks, videogame publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc (TTWO.O) jumped 7.1% after raising its full-year revenue forecast.

Payments processor Mastercard Inc (MA.N) gained 1.7% after it said it would buy a majority of the corporate services businesses of European payments company Nets for about $3.19 billion.

Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) was up 1.3%. The company is set to report its third-quarter results after market close.

The latest streak of losses has pulled the S&P 500 about 6% away from its all-time high hit last month.

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