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Good morning. The two-day selloff in chip and AI stocks deepened on Thursday, and Netflix fell hard after its earnings last night. The question into the weekend is whether the weakness spreads, or whether the money leaving tech keeps rotating into the parts of the market that are holding up.
The Market Gauge
Here is where the market finished on Thursday:
S&P 500: 7,533.77, down 0.51%
Nasdaq: 25,881.95, down 1.47%
Dow: 52,552.97, down 0.20%
What drove it: The selling in chips and AI hardware ran into a second day, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq took the brunt, closing back below its 50-day moving average. Per Investor's Business Daily, the memory-chip names kept falling, and Alphabet, Google's parent, dropped 4.4% on a report that it is months behind on its next AI model.
Beginner note: Notice the split again. The Dow slipped just 0.20% while the Nasdaq fell 1.47%. When the selling is concentrated in one hot corner of the market, the broad indexes can look calm while a specific group is having a rough week. The headline number and the story underneath it are not always the same.
On today's calendar
This is an earnings-driven day rather than an economic-data one:
Netflix reported after last night's close: results came in roughly in line with expectations, but the company guided slightly lower for the next quarter, and the stock fell sharply in after-hours trading. Watch it at the open. It is a clean example of something this week keeps teaching: when the market is in a selling mood, meeting expectations is not enough. A number that would have been fine a month ago gets sold today.
Earnings season is the main driver now: the week's reports have set the tone more than any single data release. The backdrop to watch is whether the chip and AI selling stays contained or starts pulling on the rest of the market.
On the radar: J.B. Hunt
$JBHT ( ▲ 8.01% ) is worth watching for the opposite reason to most of this week's headlines. It is a trucking and freight company, one of the largest in the country, and on a day the Nasdaq fell 1.47%, it rose 8.01% to close at $298.41, a fresh 52-week high, after a strong earnings report.
How it has been acting: J.B. Hunt's 52-week range runs from $130.12 to $299.76, and it closed Thursday right at the top of that range. Trucking and transport stocks have been one of the few groups climbing while chips fall, which tells you something: the money leaving one part of the market is not leaving entirely, it is moving somewhere else.
Why it is worth watching: A stock rising to a new high on a day the market drops is showing relative strength, and it is one of the clearest signals a beginner can learn to read. It means large investors want to own it badly enough to buy even when the mood is sour. That does not make it a buy this second, a stock up 8% in a day is extended and can pull back, which is exactly where the stop-loss discipline from last night matters. But learning to spot which stocks lead when the market is weak is how you find the leaders of the next advance. Watch whether J.B. Hunt holds its breakout or gives it back.
ONE FOR THE ROAD
When the market falls but one stock rises, does that catch your attention, or do you only watch the stocks you already own? Hit reply and tell me.
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