Key Facts AI Mega-Caps: Hype vs. Reality in Late-August Markets The final days of August saw a tug-of-war between AI-fueled optimism and growing caution among the market’s most valuable tech companies. Nowhere was this more evident than with Nvidia, the poster child of the AI boom. The GPU giant reported another quarter of blowout earnings,…
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Wall Street’s AI Rally Hits a Speed Bump After months of euphoria, U.S. equity markets stumbled into the weekend, led by a pullback in AI-focused stocks. On Friday, Aug. 29, the Nasdaq Composite sank about 1.2% and the S&P 500 fell 0.6%, snapping a streak of gains as traders locked in profits on this year’s…
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Key Facts Wall Street’s AI Rally Hits a Speed Bump After months of euphoria, U.S. markets took a breather as August closed out, led by weakness in AI-focused stocks. On Friday, Aug. 29, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq retreated from all-time highs amid a tech sell-off investopedia.com investopedia.com. The Nasdaq Composite sank 1.2% while the…
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In-Depth Report Nvidia’s Blockbuster Earnings Test the AI Trade AI-chip bellwether Nvidia delivered another blowout quarter, underlining the extraordinary scale of the ongoing AI boom. The company’s fiscal Q2 results (reported Aug 27) easily beat estimates, and management issued an even higher forecast for Q3 revenue — about $54 billion, plus/minus 2% reuters.com. That guidance edged past…
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Wall Street Rallies Ahead of Nvidia’s AI ‘Moment of Truth’ U.S. markets climbed on Aug. 26 as investors braced for Nvidia’s highly anticipated earnings release, which has been likened to an economic event in its significance reuters.com. The Dow Jones rose about 0.3%, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq each gained ~0.4%, finishing near session…
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Apple is reportedly in early talks to use Google’s Gemini AI to power Siri, a Bloomberg leak that sent Alphabet stock up 3.7% and Apple up 1.6%. Meta Platforms signed a deal with Midjourney to license its image-generation tech for Meta’s future AI products, linking Meta and Midjourney’s research teams under Meta’s new Superintelligence Labs.…
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On August 20, the Nasdaq Composite fell about 0.7% as investors rotated out of AI leaders amid warnings from OpenAI’s Sam Altman that AI stocks may be in a bubble and a MIT study showing 95% of companies see no returns on AI spending. Palantir plunged roughly 16% from its recent highs amid the AI…
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On Aug. 18, 2025, Cantor Fitzgerald analyst C.J. Muse raised Nvidia’s price target from $200 to $240, forecasting Q2 revenue of $48 billion and 2025 data-center revenue of $200 billion, with 2026 at $300 billion. Nvidia stock rose nearly 1% on Aug. 18, 2025, as investors bet on continued AI hardware leadership. The bullish Nvidia…
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AMD’s Q2 data-center chip sales rose 14% to $3.2 billion but missed forecasts, while Nvidia’s stock surged 73%. SMCI shares plunged 18% in one day after missing revenue targets and cutting guidance amid Nvidia delays and rising competition, erasing over $6 billion in value overnight. By Aug. 7–8, the AI-chip rally resumed as Nvidia and…
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Nvidia (NVDA) became a $1 trillion company in 2023, commands roughly 80% of the AI chip market, and sells the H100 and H200 data-center GPUs powering modern AI models. The S&P 500’s Magnificent Seven—Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla, and Meta—account for about 35% of the index’s market cap and have delivered over 70% of…
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