US technology stocks sank sharply on Wednesday after lacklustre overnight results from index heavyweights Tesla and Alphabet, deepening the recent sell-off in a sector that has driven the bulk of market gains this year.The Nasdaq Composite was down 2.8 per cent by early afternoon in New York, with Google parent Alphabet 5.1 per cent lower despite narrowly beating analysts’ revenue forecasts. Advertising revenue from YouTube missed consensus estimates.
However he claimed that the project could still take the company’s valuation as high as $5tn — about six times its current market value. Google’s spend and outlook was being used as an indicator for the wider trend of backing companies with links to generative AI, said analysts. All of the so-called Magnificent Seven were lower on Wednesday. Chipmaker Nvidia, which has more than doubled this year, was down by almost 4 per cent.
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