A sweeping AI leadership overhaul sent Alphabet shares sliding Wednesday, rattling investor confidence despite a blowout earnings quarter. The path to $400 hinges on something far less obvious than executive rosters or earnings beats.
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Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow continue to see strong demand, despite the sell-off in their share prices.
The Dow maintained gains in afternoon trading, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq slid. The blue chip index was up 0.7%, or 461 points, despite sharing some of the same components dragging on the Nasdaq and the S&P 500. The key to the Dow's resilience during Wednesday's session is its price-weighted structure.
In this segment of the AI Investor Podcast from 24/7 Wall St., Eric Bleeker lays out his framework for evaluating the AI trade, describing it as a stool resting on three legs: technological progress, real-world adoption, and the ability to finance the buildout. Two legs he considers extremely strong. On progress, he points to Nvidia's backing of a straight-shot superintelligence effort, ongoing gains in training and model capability, and expectations of highly capable autonomous models at roughly human level, at scale, within a year. On adoption, he cites OpenAI's monthly revenue now exceeding its prior full quarter, Microsoft noting that 90% of cloud demand comes from outside the frontier labs, and Google's 82% cloud growth. Adoption is uneven, concentrated among a relatively small group of heavy users, but strong. Financing is the weak leg and the source of most current fear. Bleeker estimates $700 to $800 billion in AI data center spending this year, growing to roughly $1.2 trillion next year, against a financing ceiling he places somewhere between $1.5 and $2 trillion annually. With 2028 expectations near $1.4 trillion, the market is approaching that ceiling, which is why valuation now dominates stock selection. A company historically worth 15 times earnings trading at 40 times its 2028 or 2029 numbers is hard to defend. He closes with three points: the selloff is likely closer to its end than its beginning, macro risks remain including a possible September rate rise and soft GDP, and for anyone sidelined by prior valuations, this is arguably the most attractive entry point since spring 2025.
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Microsoft stock is on a four-day winning streak after breaking out of a cup base at a pivot of 466.32 amid an earnings beat.
Canada's Shopify projected current-quarter revenue growth above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling the company's AI efforts were drawing more merchants to its suite of e-commerce services, sending its U.S.-listed shares up 26% premarket. The company's solid outlook and a second-quarter revenue beat are set to quell investor concerns about growing competition from new AI tools targeting small businesses that have dented Shopify's shares. If premarket gains hold, Shopify shares are set to recoup all losses this year.
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Kenya's Nairobi Securities Exchange is creating East Africa's first AI stocks-focused exchange-traded fund, which it plans to offer to investors before year-end, its CEO said. The Nairobi market attracts a sizeable proportion of foreign equity investors given its profitable banking sector and telecoms operator Safaricom, but it does not currently offer exposure to AI stocks. "We want essentially to be able to bring a product to our market where the underlying basket is a reflection of companies that have a direct exposure to AI," Frank Mwiti told Reuters.