The Magnificent Seven stocks experienced a sharp plunge in market value Tuesday, shedding over $250 billion in value a single session as hotter-than-expected inflation data sparked a widespread sell-off in U.S. stocks. The group, which includes heavyweights Microsoft Corp. (NYSE:MSFT), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Amazon Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META), NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), saw its collective market capitalization dip below the $13-trillion mark. Microsoft bore the brunt of the market-cap declin…