Chipmaker Selloff Deepens, Senator Graham Capitol Hill Farewell, More
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news when you want it with bloomberg news now i'm amy morris a sell-off in semiconductor stocks deepened as signs of progress in china's advanced chip making compounded worries about the sustainability of the ai spending boom mandeep singh is global head of tech research for bloomberg intelligence it's the market expressing its nervousness around that negative free cash flow and uh
Really not enough ROI to justify all this increase. There is ROI. We saw that in Alphabet's print, but the market didn't feel like this was enough to give them a pass and, you know, for the stock to go up.
Hear more from Mandeep Singh on the Bloomberg Intelligence podcast. The MSCI World Semiconductor Index has plunged 16 percent this month to track its worst performance since 2022, although it does remain about 28 percent higher for the year. SpaceX shares have erased a fifth of their value since the record-setting debut of Elon Musk's company as investors shunned riskier tech firms. The company has shed more than $1.2 trillion in market value from its peak, with the stock sitting 47 percent below its closing high on June 16th. Roughly 30% of the shares currently available for trading are being sold short. Apple became just the second company ever to achieve a $5 trillion market valuation. The iPhone maker's shares rose as much as 1.8%.
to $342.89. That pushed the company's market capitalization to above $5 trillion. It has since dipped below that, but if the stock rises above $340 per share, it will cross the threshold. Apple shares right now little changed on the upside, sitting right at that $340 per share mark. A rotation has seen Wall Street investors bail from high-profile chip makers in favor of more economically sensitive industries. We do check markets for you all day long here at Bloomberg. The S&P 500, little changed on the upside. NASDAQ's down about a half percent and the Dow up about eight-tenths of a percent. The 10-year Treasury yield now at 4.59% and the two-year yield at 4.26%. The Philadelphia semiconductor index is down more than 5 percent, led by Micron, which has fallen nearly 10 percent.
And consumer confidence fell in July.
Why did semiconductor stocks plunge and what signs from China worried investors?
Americans' views about current business conditions and the labor market deteriorated. The conference board's gauge of confidence decreased 1.4 points. That's down to 90.8. After an upward revision the month before, senior U.S. economist Yelena Shilyateva with the conference board says this is all part of a downward trend.
If you look at the labor differential, it was still depressed. Consumers continue to assess labor market conditions as, you know, there are not that many jobs available. So there's nothing really much changed in this perspective.
Senior U.S. economist Yelena Shileteva with the Conference Board on Bloomberg Intelligence. Washington today says goodbye to longtime South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, a ceremony being held in the Capitol Hill Rotunda at this hour, a funeral service set for later this afternoon at the National Cathedral. President Trump is expected to give the eulogy. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are also expected to attend. Now ahead of Senator Graham's funeral, a bipartisan group of senators announced an agreement to move forward on a highly anticipated Russia and Iran sanctions bill named in his honor. The bill extends penalties on Iran and singles out Russian gas and oil exports, empowering the president to target the top five buyers of Russian crude with tariffs.
The bill has a strong chance of passing the Senate this week, but it cannot become law until September at the earliest because the House has already left for its August recess.
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