AI stocks bounce back — with one notable exception
Zoom in: Stocks romped across the AI ecosystem — well, with one important exception.
Key points
- Yes, but: The glaring exception to the AI-palooza was its best-known player, Nvidia.
- The other side: On the other hand, there may be good reasons such stocks sold off.
- Or is it just an example of Wall Street's proverbial dead cat bounce?
Context: Bullish commentary from Wall Street established the background music for Monday's big bounce, as analysts urged investors to buy into the market's recent soft patch.
"We believe stocks are now clearly in oversold territory," Goldman Sachs analysts wrote in a note Monday.
Additional details
- The big picture: Monday's sudden burst of exuberance for AI was the latest wide swing for a market upended by last week's "blue tsunami" in the midterm elections and the threat they could pose to the data center boom.
- Weekend revelations from CEO Jensen Huang — who acknowledged having an affair with a woman suspected of connections to Chinese intelligence — left investors grappling with uncertainty about the CEO's future.
- For example, even before the news about the Nvidia CEO or the anti-data center vote at the polls, Wall Street expectations for capital expenditures from hyperscalers had been looking a bit flat.
- Given that a large percentage of that AI investment is spent on the semiconductors needed to make these computing centers, well, compute, that would seem to be important for tech investors.
- Data: FactSet; Chart: Matt Phillips/Axios The AI trade has regained momentum despite — or maybe because of — Nvidia's struggles following the weekend revelations from CEO Jensen Huang.
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