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Memory chip shortages continue to be a problem for most companies.
September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU26) are up +0.57%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU26) are up +1.39% this morning, pointing to a higher open on Wall Street as a rebound in chipmakers gained momentum.
Sandisk is up by about 500% so far this year.
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Wall Street is swinging back upward on Monday, as the roller-coaster ride for stocks of chipmakers and other winners of the artificial-intelligence boom snaps higher. Such stocks have been under pressure for weeks on worries that their prices shot too high in the euphoria around AI. Wall Street may get some hints on that soon as some of the biggest spenders on AI report their latest quarterly results.
Chip and AI-linked stocks have whacked in recent weeks after a sharp run-up, while inflation concerns, the U.S.-Iran conflict, and stretched valuations have also weighed on sentiment.
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A week of tech stock crashes!
Sandisk was spun off as a separate, independent company by Western Digital in 2025, about a decade after it was purchased. The two now operate as independent, publicly traded companies, with Sandisk focusing on manufacturing flash storage cards, while Western Digital focuses on making hard disk ...
July 17 (Reuters) - U.S. equity funds recorded outflows in the week through July 15, as a selloff in chip stocks and rising U.S.-Iran tensions, outweighed strong corporate earnings and cooler
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The PHLX Semiconductor Index hit a record high in late June and has since tumbled nearly 20%
The Nasdaq composite is down more than 1% this morning. Here are the stocks on the index that are getting hit hard: 💾 Chips, memory makers: Sandisk, Micron, AMD, SK Hynix's ADRs, Intel, Western Digital, Seagate, Arm, Broadcom, Nvidia and Marvell are all deep in the red.
July 16 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were subdued on Thursday as investors paused after a two-day rally, while chip stocks remained under pressure ahead of fresh economic reports and another
Dell, Sandisk and Micron led an AI sell-off, masked by megacaps such as Apple. SpaceX undercut its IPO price. Taiwan Semi, GE Aerospace earnings are due.
Memory stocks plunged on Wednesday along with shares of other hardware providers for AI data centers.
FTSE 100 down 23 points to 10,506 Miners fall on weaker China GDP Barratt Redrow, ICG, B&M, NextEnergy Solar publish updates 12.13pm: European stocks in the red, US futures green London's blue-chips and those in other European financial centres remain under pressure at midday...
AI cloud computing company CoreWeave is exploring the use of financial derivatives as a potential hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices, according to a person familiar with the matter. To lock in supply amid soaring demand, thanks to a surge in AI infrastructure construction, cloud operators including CoreWeave have signed long-term agreements with memory and storage makers such as Micron and SanDisk. But the arrangement cuts both ways: it protects chipmakers from a downturn, but leaves cloud companies like CoreWeave exposed if prices fall and they are stuck paying well above the going rate.