Nvidia, Wall Street and Stocks
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The S&P 500 is tracking toward its worst November since 2008 amid mounting concerns over an AI-fueled "bubble" that not even Nvidia and its CEO, Jensen Huang, could allay after it
Jarring swings keep rocking Wall Street, and U.S. stocks erased a big morning gain to drop on Thursday as the market remains skittish following weeks of doubts and erratic moves.
Nvidia has grown to become the largest stock on Wall Street and briefly topped $5 trillion in value. That means its stock movements carry more weight on the S&P 500 than any other stock, and it can single-handedly steer the index’s direction some days.
The better market mood triggered by Nvidia's barnstorming earnings and outlook is reducing concerns about sharp, and possibly negative, stock market moves. The Cboe Volatility index (VIX), is an option-derived measure of expected S&P 500 moves,
Warnings about Wall Street's excessive optimism, concentration risk, and frothy valuations have fallen on deaf ears for most of this year, leaving market-watchers wondering what, if anything, will cool the tech and artificial intelligence frenzy.
The ongoing Bitcoin crash has claimed a major casualty: BlackRock (NYSE: BLK). Yes, the world's largest asset manager recently suffered its worst-ever rout when its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) saw the largest sell-off in a single day.
A slowdown in corporate buybacks as AI players add debt could steal an important source of demand from the market.
Wall Street stocks slid on Thursday in a sharp reversal from an early rally, as technology gains faded after a boost from Nvidia's earnings and U.S. jobs data muddied the labor market outlook.
The shares of Bullish (NYSE: BLSH), the crypto platform backed by PayPal co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, sank on Nov. 19 despite beating revenue estimates in the third quarter of the year.