{"id":245030,"date":"2025-11-05T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245030\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:23:07","slug":"global-tech-shares-fall-over-ai-bubble-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245030\/","title":{"rendered":"Global tech shares fall over AI bubble fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It seems fatigue over AI and the current earnings run has investors questioning the sustainability of the AI hype. That&#8217;s dragged down AI companies overnight in markets,&#8221; said financial analyst Farhan Badami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Markets worldwide have climbed in over the year as investors placed their chips in companies linked to AI, including Nvidia, Intel and AMD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many jumps in tech shares have been linked to major investments in firms. For instance, Amazon shares hit an all-time high on Monday after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cgqlzje32pjo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the announcement of a $38bn (\u00a328bn) deal with OpenAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the shares of many tech firms fell on Wednesday. Amazon&#8217;s stock dipped by 1.84% and notably, Nvidia &#8211; recently the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp8e970vn5vo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first company to ever be valued at $5tn<\/a> &#8211; dropped by close to 4%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SoftBank, one of Japan&#8217;s largest firms, suffered one of steepest drop in shares. The fall weighed especially hard on Japan&#8217;s Nikkei index.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The investment firm has invested heavily in AI development, channelling billions into tech companies like OpenAI, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cly4vn1nxg7o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Intel<\/a> and other players in the sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SoftBank&#8217;s decline stems from the recent &#8220;sharp rally&#8221; in its shares, which investment analyst Vincent Fernando describes as a &#8220;double-edged sword&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The surge can attract investors, but also leaves the stock vulnerable to pullbacks whenever market sentiments shift, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The market can worry if the company is overspending on AI and won&#8217;t make a sufficient return on that spend,&#8221; said Mr Fernando from investment consultancy Zero One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tech shares also took a hit elsewhere in Asia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Korea&#8217;s Samsung fell by more than 4% while the country&#8217;s stock exchange index, the Kospi, was down by 2.85%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">TSMC, which makes semiconductors for Nvidia, was fell nearly 3%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Badami from financial services firm eToro believes the correction among tech stocks will continue over the next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Investors seem to be feeling that some of the super-high valuations out there aren&#8217;t making sense, and AI enthusiasm has definitely fuelled those stretched valuations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spending within AI-focused tech firms has been &#8220;really high, and for some companies, they are not making enough money to justify the spending,&#8221; said Mr Badami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It seems fatigue over AI and the current earnings run has investors questioning the sustainability of the AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-245030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}