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Tech stocks were on track to extend their recent slump on Friday as investors continued to fret about soaring memory-chip costs and wondered if the AI trading frenzy may be about to fizzle out. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 0.9%. The Nasdaq closed in the red on Thursday as investors ditched the Magnificent Seven group of mega-cap tech stocks.
Investing.com - U.S. stock futures were mixed on Friday as investors remain cautious after another difficult week for technology stocks. Reports that OpenAI may delay its highly anticipated stock market debut added to concerns around lofty AI valuations, while Apple’s recent price hikes continued to weigh on sentiment.
Alphabet has gone from AI loser to winner and back again, and its addition to the this past week has only seemed to make things worse. After hitting record highs of more than $400 in the first half of May, Alphabet has dropped around 15%. High-profile departures of artificial-intelligence researchers and an $85 billion equity raise have tested investors’ nerves, culminating in a $225 billion fall in market capitalization on a single day on Monday, the company’s worst-ever one-day loss in value.
US stock futures wavered as Wall Street digested a downbeat week for tech stocks.
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Thursday, with the Dow ticking up more than a tenth of a percent, while the S&P 500 closed flat and the Nasdaq dropped nearly half a percent.</p><p>Technology shares reversed early gains to move lower, as investors worried about hyperscaler spending on AI and who foots the bill.</p><p>:: Micron</p><p>Those fears outweighed upbeat signals on AI demand from Micron, which gained nearly 16%, while shares of Sandisk soared 22%.</p><p>Brian Mulberry, chief market strategist at Zacks Investment Management, notes that it's memory chip makers that are now leading the charge. </p><p>"What's different about Micron, SanDisk, Western Digital, those types of names that are doing so well is that they're memory chips. And you have to have memory, specifically DRAM or H-band memory, if you're going to have enough computing power to do all the computations. That is nothing if you don't have memory to transfer it from one place to another. So one of the reasons that these stocks have done so well and the growth at Micron is so solid is because a recent redesign in the server technology means we go from eight memory chips per server to 96. That's 12 times growth in demand for this one simple component."</p><p>The surging prices of memory and storage chips prompted Apple on Thursday to hike prices for its iPads and MacBooks. That weighed on the stock, sending it down more than 6%. Shares of Nvidia, Microsoft and Alphabet also dropped.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Among other movers, shares of Bio-Techne jumped after Merck agreed to acquire the biotech firm for $73 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of about $11.3 billion.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Meanwhile, U.S. Department of Commerce data on Thursday showed the annual inflation rate through May rose above 4% for the first time in three years, but oil prices this week fell to below pre-war levels.</p></body>
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