By Avinash P and Purvi AgarwalAug 11 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq slipped in choppy trading on Tuesday, weighed down by heavyweight tech stocks, as investors assessed a report suggesting the United States and Iran were ‌close to "some sort of an arrangement". At 9:52 a.m. ⁠ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 221.79 points, or 0.41%, to 54,197.77, while the S&P 500 lost 2.27 points, or 0.03%, to 7,750.84 and the Nasdaq Composite slipped 92.18 points, or 0.35%, to ⁠26,513.18. In the market, the S&P 500 industrials and utilities were the biggest gainers, helping offset declines in heavyweight tech and communication services stocks. The S&P 500 information technology sector swung between gains and losses as Nvidia was up 1.2%, while Microsoft and Apple lost 0.8% and 1%, respectively. Riot Platforms jumped ​9.5%, following a media report that the cloud-computing firm clinched a $9 billion deal with Anthropic.