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Equity Alert: US indices end lower as AI stocks weigh, S&P 500 falls over 1%

 

MUMBAI--0735 IST--US indices ended lower Wednesday with the S&P 500 continuing its losing streak for the fourth session. The artificial intelligence stocks were the major drag on the indices after media reports said that the tech major Oracle lost its primary investor out of one of its data centre projects. The tech-heavy indices such as the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite ended 1.16% and 1.18% lower, respectively.

 

Oracle's shares fell 5.4?ter its largest data centre partner Blue Owl Capital backed out of the $10 billion deal for its next facility because the former faces increased concern about its rising debt and artificial intelligence spending, Financial Times reported, citing sources. However, Orcale has denied the report and said it is moving forward with the project. Other technology stocks, such as chipmaker Broadcom and the heavyweight stock Nvidia lost 4?ch, CNBC reported.

 

Shares of Oracle and Broadcom incurred sizeable losses in December, a month that has seen investors move into value-oriented areas of the market such as financials. The stock of Oracle has declined more than 11% and Broadcom declined around 19% over the month, CNBC reported. 

 

Shares of the semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices lost more than 5% and Google's parent company Alphabet lost over 3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its losing streak for the fourth consecutive session, down 0.5%. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended lower Tuesday after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its November jobs report, which showed that the unemployment rate rose to a four-year high 4.6%, raising concern about the US economy, as per the CNBC report.  

 

Following are the closing levels of US indices Wednesday:

    

Index	Level	Change in %
S&P 500	6721.43	(-)1.16
NASDAQ Composite	22693.32	(-)1.81
Dow Jones Industrial Average	47885.97	(-)0.47

  

(Adhithya Aji)

 

US$1 = INR 90.38

IST, or Indian Standard Time, is five-and-a-half hours ahead of GMT

 

Edited by Akul Nishant Akhoury

 

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