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Tech stocks tumble again
No clear catalyst for the market decline, but there are plenty of suspects.
TL;DR
- Tech stocks experienced a sharp selloff on Tuesday, with AI-related shares posting double-digit losses.
- Datacenter-centric stocks, including chip makers (AMD, Intel), optical networking stocks (Coherent, Lumentum), and server makers (Dell, HPE, Super Micro), tumbled.
- Memory product makers (Micron, Seagate, Western Digital) also saw significant declines.
- No clear catalyst for the selloff was identified, with geopolitical events and Apple's conference cited as unlikely drivers.
- A possible explanation is investors selling recent winners to fund upcoming IPOs, such as SpaceX.
- Alternatively, the selloff could indicate a long-warned-about cooling or correction in the overheated market.