



Tech slide drags Nasdaq Composite to worst day in a month
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tech stocks retreated Wednesday, with declines in Nvidia and other chip companies dragging the Nasdaq composite to its worst day in almost a month. Driving the moves: concerns about high valuations and additional regulation.
On Tuesday, the Trump administration said Nvidia must meet new security requirements before sending H200 artificial-intelligence chips to China. Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reiterated plans for consumer protection rules on artificial intelligence.
Broadcom and Arm Holdings lost 4.2% and 2.6% respectively. Nvidia fell 1.4%, and the Nasdaq dropped 1% to notch its worst one-day drop since Dec. 17.
Tech firms’ ambitious plans for blowout spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure had already been making some investors skittish over the past couple of months. “I would argue that tech stocks are no longer a safe haven," said Jay Hatfield, chief executive officer at Infrastructure Capital Advisors. “They’ve been a safe haven since the pandemic but that’s not normal." The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average both fell less than the Nasdaq, losing 0.5% and less than 0.1% respectively, in another example of the so-called rotation trade that has powered recent market moves.
Investors’ growing sense of optimism about the economy, and their more-cautious view of the artificial-intelligence build-out, have spurred a shift away from some of the recent tech highfliers and into stocks poised to benefit from a reacceleration in growth. Shares of consumer staples companies, healthcare providers, and energy companies edged upward. The equal weighted S&P 500 gained 0.4%.
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