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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite fell in every day of a calendar week for the first time since April 2024, losing about 2% and 4.6%, respectively. “I just don’t think it’s a time as an investor that you should be focused on swinging for the fences,” said Jim Baird, chief investment officer at Plante Moran Financial Advisors. The declines continued this past week, which began with a tech selloff that ripped through chip makers from Seoul to Santa Clara, Calif. Micron’s upbeat outlook after Wednesday’s close looked set to spark a rebound, but momentum faded quickly, especially after Apple and Microsoft announced they would increase prices for MacBooks and Xbox gaming consoles, respectively.
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Despite notable stock declines today, memory makers like Micron Technology, Samsung and SK Hynix are far and away the best performers among trillion-dollar technology companies this year. Some of the moves this past week help explain why.
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MU and SNDK are riding the AI memory boom as strong demand, pricing power and rising earnings support continued momentum.
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Sarah Kunst of Cleo Capital went on CNBC Friday morning and said what a lot of portfolio managers have been muttering to themselves all week. “People are wondering if putting all of their eggs into the AI, a sort of high growth hyperscaler basket, was maybe not the best idea over the past couple of ... A VC Says the ‘All Your Eggs in the AI Basket’ Trade Is Finally Cracking — Here’s Where the Money Goes Next
Micron's outlook eased chip-demand fears, but inflation concerns quickly reignited volatility across AI-focused stocks.
Cristiano Amon walked into Qualcomm’s (NASDAQ:QCOM) Investor Day on June 24, 2026 with a number designed to be repeated. Over $15 billion in annual data center AI chip sales by fiscal 2029, up from $5 billion in 2027, alongside a $40 billion non-handset revenue target and adjusted EPS above $18 by that year. Qualcomm shares rose 13.3% ... Qualcomm Just Promised $15 Billion in AI Chip Sales, but There’s a Catch: The Chips Don’t Exist Yet
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shareholders woke up Thursday to find that the most valuable company in the world had been undone by something the size of a Tic Tac. A memory chip. Specifically, the DRAM and NAND modules tucked inside every Mac, iPad, and Vision Pro on the shelf. Shares fell as much as 6.6% after Apple ... Apple Stock Just Dropped 6.6%, and One Tiny, Boring Chip Is to Blame
Memory chips are boring until they aren’t, and Wednesday afternoon they stopped being boring. Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) guided fiscal fourth-quarter revenue to $50 billion, plus or minus $1 billion, against a Wall Street consensus parked around $43 billion. Bloomberg Tech host Ed Ludlow, on Bloomberg Businessweek Daily, summed up the move with a line that ... Micron Just Beat Wall Street and It ‘Reset the Entire Industry’
The market has rarely seen a technological revolution like the one the artificial intelligence boom has unleashed. Semiconductor companies, in particular, have been rewarded at a pace few investors have ever witnessed. Last year, Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) dominated headlines as demand for AI accelerators exploded. This year, the spotlight has shifted to a different bottleneck: memory. ... Micron Grew 10X in 12 Months. Can It Do It Again?
The memory shortage has become a windfall for storage makers.
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A sharp sell-off in leading technology stocks reflects short-term impatience rather than any breakdown in the artificial intelligence trade, according to Wedbush. The broker said core names driving what it calls the fourth industrial revolution, including Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT),...
In a note on Friday, Kindig argued that widespread shortages across high-bandwidth memory, conventional DRAM and NAND flash continue to give memory makers significant pricing power.

A renewed sell-off in the tech sector started, stopped, and has now restarted to end this trading week. All three of the major indexes (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) are seeing red on Friday morning as Micron Technology (MU) even sheds its massive gains after releasing earnings on Wednesday. Opening Bid Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley, Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferré, and PNC Asset Management Group CIO Amanda Agati to discuss the state of the current momentum trade inside Big Tech stocks.
When OpenAI IPOs, money will flow. But when will OpenAI IPO?
Shares of ON Semiconductor (NASDAQ:ON) are down 20% in early Friday trading, sliding to $95 after the chipmaker unveiled an all-stock acquisition of Synaptics (NASDAQ:SYNA). The drop erases a meaningful slice of ON stock’s recent rally. ON Semiconductor stock entered the session up 119% year to date (YTD), so today’s air pocket lands on a ... ON Semiconductor Tumbles 20%: Is It Dragging Down Semiconductor Names Like AMD and Intel?