Top Stock Market Losers After the Opening Bell (Dec. 12, 2025): Broadcom Leads Decliners as AI Margin, Capex Fears Hit Tech
NEW YORK — Friday, Dec. 12, 2025 (updated around 9:46 a.m. ET): U.S. stocks opened mixed, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq under pressure while the Dow held up better—an early sign that investors are still rotating away from the most crowded parts of the “AI trade” and into other pockets of the market. AP News+1 The biggest early losers were concentrated in semiconductors and data-infrastructure names—led by Broadcom, which extended a sharp slide after management flagged pressure on gross margins tied to the company’s fast-growing AI systems business. Meanwhile, storage and memory names—some of 2025’s biggest winners—also fell in a bout of profit-taking. Slickcharts+4Slickcharts+4Slickcharts+4 Below is a