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Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq sink as sell-off builds while silver, bitcoin plunge

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Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq sink as sell-off builds while silver, bitcoin plunge US stocks turned lower on Thursday in a fruitless search for a reprieve from a building tech sell-off as investors awaited Amazon earnings, assessed Alphabet's big AI spending plans, and digested jobs data that signaled fresh…
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  • Alphabet's $180 billion capex number is incredible and very good for the Google cohort of suppliers

    80% confidence
  • Sentiment has turned soggy across most asset classes including regional equities and metals creating a feedback loop amid thin market liquidity

    80% confidence
  • US government cannot tell banks to bail out cryptocurrency

    80% confidence
  • Alphabet has very good SaaS customers who are leaders in their respective categories including Intuit, ServiceNow, and Salesforce

    80% confidence
  • Near-term handsets outlook is impacted by industry-wide memory supply constraints but Qualcomm is encouraged by end-consumer demand for premium and high tier smartphones

    80% confidence
  • e.l.f.'s value proposition, powerhouse innovation and disruptive marketing engine continue to fuel brands and the company remains confident in ability to grow market share

    80% confidence
  • Successful SaaS companies are incorporating Gemini deeply in critical workflows to improve product experience, drive growth, or drive efficiency

    80% confidence
  • Software companies who are seizing the AI moment have the same opportunity ahead as Google has had with Gemini as an enabling tool

    80% confidence
  • It isn't clear how much of Microsoft's disappointment might be due to company-specific issues versus overall slowing in the cloud space

    80% confidence
  • What was starting to price into Microsoft stock was a higher growth rate which is always dangerous

    80% confidence

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