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A sell-off in semiconductor stocks deepened on Tuesday.

A sell-off in semiconductor stocks deepened on Tuesday.

Shares skidded Friday in Asia after Brent crude shot to its highest price since May as heavy fighting in the Middle East again threatened to slow the global flow of oil and gas. U.S. futures were little changed after tumbles for two of Wall Street’s most influential companies, Alphabet and Tesla, yanked U.S. stocks to their worst loss in a month.

19% That's how much the PHLX Semiconductor Index has tumbled from its June high. The index's biggest components include AI heavyweights including Nvidia, Micron Technology, Broadcom and Applied Materials, all of which have come under pressure in recent weeks.

U.S. trade regulators have launched ‌a probe into ‌Samsung Electronics' memory chips and ​products sold by Google, Nvidia, Broadcom and Super Micro Computer that use ‌them ⁠after a complaint by Netlist alleging infringement ⁠of its patents. California-based Netlist has accused Samsung ​and its ​U.S. ​units of ‌infringing its patents on dynamic random access memory, a type of chip that temporarily stores data ‌for processors ​and is a ​critical ​component in the ‌servers powering the ​AI ​boom, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) said ​on ‌Wednesday.

AppLovin is cratering 12% on Monday with no company-specific news to blame, leaving investors to wonder whether the selloff signals real trouble or just a high-beta name taking the brunt of a cooling AI trade.

Wall Street is becoming more confident in Micron Technology (MU). A Melius analyst now says the chipmaker could become the sixth-largest public company in the United States. That would make it worth more thanBroadcom (AVGO) and even Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM). The analyst's claim is a bold ...

Samsung stock fell nearly 7% in South Korea despite a 19-fold surge in quarterly operating profit, dragging tech indexes lower worldwide

Investors seem to be missing or misunderstanding the key details of Nvidia’s long-term strategy. We can see this in the stock's performance. Nvidia (NVDA) stock is up 5.94% year to date at the time of writing, Thursday morning, July 2. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up about 9.36% ...

OpenAI IPO Delay Report Sparks Sharp Selloff in AI and Memory Stocks

Memory stocks just went from cyclical chip plays to AI-era essentials, and Bank of America’s Vivek Arya thinks the market is still pricing them like the old version. Speaking on CNBC the morning after Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) reported, BofA’s senior semiconductor analyst argued that “what we are witnessing is what I would call a structural ... BofA Says Micron Is Trading Under 10x Earnings and Wall Street Is Completely Missing the Story

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock closed at $519.85 on June 23, down 5.76%. The stock was caught in the tech sector sell-off, as reported by Yahoo Finance. This drop is probably just a small hiccup, given how the stock has performed over the longer time frame and the bullish analyst consensus. The ...

Technology companies are spending big to incorporate artificial intelligence into their businesses and to build huge data centers. Investors who had jumped on the bandwagon appear to be having second thoughts. Just four companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms and Microsoft — plan to spend up to $720 billion this year, primarily on AI data centers.

Its share price has plunged about 21% since second-quarter earnings were released on June 3.

Tech stocks led the losses on Tuesday as investors went risk-off.

Stocks slide as interest rates remain the same and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh starts writing a shorter song for the biggest central bank in the world.

A Redditor shared the kind of story that makes everyone reach for the calculator. A friend put roughly $1 million into Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (NYSEARCA:SOXL), watched the position bleed down to about $200,000 during the 2025 tariff-war selloff, refused to sell, and then cashed out near $7.5 million when the AI chip ... He Watched His $1M ETF Investment Crash to $200k. Then He Cashed Out at $7.5 Million

Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma joins Market Domination to tackle today's top trending tickers, including the momentum driving SpaceX (SPCX) shares in Friday's session after the company's IPO, the impact it is having on other space stocks Virgin Galactic (SPCE) and Rocket Lab (RKLB), and how semiconductor stocks such as Micron Technology (MU) and Nvidia (NVDA) are moving on the historic public offering.

<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes tumbled on Wednesday, with the Dow dropping almost 1.9%, the S&P 500 shedding 1.6% and the Nasdaq falling nearly 2%.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Renewed tensions in the Middle East added to investor uncertainty, with President Donald Trump saying the U.S. would attack Iran again "very hard" following a significant exchange of fire overnight.</p><p>Chip makers continued to drag on the market, extending their recent declines. Shares of Nvidia lost more than 3.5%, while Broadcom dropped more than 5%.</p><p>Gina Martin Adams is chief market strategist at HB Wealth.</p><p>"We've had a pretty tough go for the last few days in the equity market, really starting in the middle of last week. We started to see a little bit of rotation out of technology stocks as the earnings season is finally finished. That was clearly the big catalyst for gains. Now we're starting to see markets react a little bit to friction that has reemerged in the Middle East. So you've got two different influences on the equity market right now. Investors are rotating out of tech after the enormous run that it had had since the end of March, and Middle East tensions, which are flaring up again."</p><p>:: Oracle</p><p>In other tech names, shares of Oracle, down more than 2% at the close, dropped further in extended trading after&nbsp;</p><p>the company reported quarterly revenue that narrowly beat Wall Street expectations. Its results came amid concerns about Oracle's spending and AI-driven disruption to traditional software demand. The company also said it expects to raise nearly $40 billion through a combination of debt and equity financing in fiscal 2027.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Shares of Super Micro Computer nosedived 28% after the company announced plans to raise $7 billion through a series of equity and equity-linked transactions to fund component purchases for its growing AI server demand.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>And shares of trucking companies dipped after Amazon announced an expansion of its freight services, with shares of J.B. Hunt, XPO and Old Dominion all suffering losses.</p><p>Meanwhile, data from the Labor Department showed U.S. consumer prices increased 4.2% in the 12 months through May, the largest gain since April of 2023.</p><p>While the Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold interest rates steady at its policy meeting next week, investors are now pricing in at least one rate hike by the end of the year.</p></body>

By Caroline Valetkevitch and Joel Jose June 10 (Reuters) - All three major U.S. stock indexes were down more than 1% on Wednesday afternoon, with chipmaker shares extending recent declines and with

June 10 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell on Wednesday as technology stocks extended losses, while renewed tensions between the U.S. and Iran weighed on sentiment ahead of a key inflation

At $396.60, Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) is a Hold. The stock just suffered its second-largest negative earnings day reaction in nine quarters, and the reason behind it deserves more attention than the headline number. Broadcom designs custom AI accelerators, networking silicon, and infrastructure software for hyperscaler buildouts. Fiscal Q2 delivered strong results: revenue hit $22.19 billion, up ... 1 Under-the-Radar Reason to Hold Broadcom Stock After Its Historic 14% Earnings Crash

June 9 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures climbed on Tuesday, as chip stocks extended gains for a second day, while easing hostilities in the Middle East also aided sentiment.

Jim Cramer used his June 8, 2026, Squawk on the Street appearance to deliver a direct warning to anyone riding the AI chip rally. His line, after a brutal Friday that saw the Philadelphia semiconductor index post its fourth-worst decline ever: “Unless you have accelerated earnings, your stock is pretty much done. Got to go ... Jim Cramer Warns: AI Stocks Face 50% Crash Without Earnings Growth

You know that feeling when a friend aces every exam, lands a dream job offer, and somehow still can't catch a break? That's the market handing CrowdStrike Holdings (CRWD) and Broadcom Inc. (AVGO) their report cards right now. Both companies just delivered earnings that would make most CEOs weep ...

BNP Paribas is warning clients that this week’s SpaceX IPO could do something the AI rally has not yet had to absorb: force a wave of selling in the very semiconductor stocks that have driven the market higher. Retail investors are expected to be heavy buyers of the IPO, and they will need to raise ... Wall Street Bank Warns SpaceX IPO Could Trigger Large Sell-Off in Popular Semiconductor Stocks

The Roundhill Memory ETF (CBOE:DRAM) closed Friday, June 5, 2026 at $55.79, down 15% on the day from a prior close of $65.70. Over the two-day window from June 3 through June 5, the fund dropped 20%, going from $69.71 to that Friday close. If you had $10,000 in DRAM at Wednesday’s open, you had ... Guidance Miss Becomes a Bloodbath: DRAM’s 15% Implosion is At The Center

There's a fear quietly spreading through enterprise software circles — that agentic AI is coming for the business model. Why pay for software licenses when AI can write, replace, or automate what that software does? It's a legitimate question. And 65-year-old Broadcom (AVGO) CEO Hock Tan just ...

Broadcom’s AI bookings remain the key proof point, with investors watching whether custom chip demand can convert quickly enough to support its fiscal 2027 AI revenue target.