NEW YORK (AP) — Another wipeout for stocks tied to the buildout of AI data centers is overwhelming Wall Street on Thursday and more than erasing all its gains from the day before, which was its best in three months.

The S&P 500 fell 3.5% after opening with a loss that accelerated through the morning. It’s on track for its worst drop since President Donald Trump shook markets worldwide in April 2025 after announcing his “Liberation Day” tariffs.

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      Companies pouring money into AI are the ones to look at. Example:

      They’re still doing doing great if you zoom out further, but it’s a potential start.

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    As soon as you see the billionaires cashing out of the casino … it’s already too late

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    i saw a guy blowing his nose on a 5090 and throw it in the garbage at the bus stop

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      Its news, but its not 2008-financial-crisis or Black Monday (22.6% drop in a single day) scale news.

      Whats reading even more strange to me is that the 3% drop indicates a sell-off of stocks. The idea is that the money disappearing from the stock market goes somewhere, but all of the normal places it goes are also dropping.

      • Gold up only 1% since two days ago
      • Short term (4 week) US Treasuries are down by about 10 basis points since last week.
      • Real Estate sales are down
      • Private Equity withdraws are still hitting their max ceilings

      Is this a selloff to pay off debt perhaps?

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        According to the article it’s going into long term treasuries

        In the bond market, Treasury yields continued to tumble. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.84% from 4.90% late Wednesday. It had been at 4.95% on election night and above 5.30% last month. That could be a signal that investors are herding into U.S. Treasury bonds in search of something that’s safer to own as stock prices tumble.

        For those who don’t know how bonds work, a bonds yield going down means its price has gone up. Say a bond pays $2 a year. If that bond is priced at $100 then it’s yield is 2% , if that bonds price goes up to $200 then it’s yield is now only 1%.

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      The NASDAQ drop today is equivalent to a 1 day ~12 or 13% drop just 3 years ago…

      It’s a big drop. No comment on what it means, bit it’s absolutely a big drop.

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      It’s “suicide hotlines being posted on WSB” bad, that’s my usual indicator for newsworthy stock crashes.

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    I know broad market is down, but it makes me happy my portfolio was basically unaffected.

    I was asked by my bank to invest in a data centre “infrastructure fund” and said no.

    Why would I invest in hardware at all time high prices?

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    Selling the semiconductor ETF I had for the last 6 years just before the election has shown to be a very good idea.

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    stocks tied to the buildout of AI data centers

    Slowing down data center construction might be bad for the companies making hardware for them, but it’s probably good for the AI companies that are throwing money into data centers with no real plan for making their money back.

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    The trump bots are overactive in the comments

    Edit: just so we’re clear I’m talking about apnews, not here