Novo Nordisk Drops 18% At Open, Software Selloff Stabilizes
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Traders have continued to dump stocks across the software, financial services and asset management sectors after a new AI automation tool from Anthropic sparked a massive sell-off. The latest release has supercharged disruption fears that have been simmering across the software industry for months. Jefferies equities trader Jeffrey Favuza described the $285 billion route as an apocalypse for software-as-a-service stocks. He added that trading is very much get-me-out style selling. Here's the view of Mandeep Singh, Bloomberg Intelligence's Senior Global Head of Technology Research.
Right now, what we are seeing is, you know, the power of these large-angle models in coming up with a new interface, a chatbot or some sort of a simple interface where you can throw in data, you can automate, you know, steps of your workflow. But generalizing that everything, you know, will be fully automated is a stretch.
Mandeep Singh speaking there as software stocks slid from India to Japan following similar declines among their US and European peers in trading on Tuesday.
Now, almost half a trillion dollars has been wiped off cryptocurrencies in less than a week as the sell-off accelerated. Bitcoin dropped as much as 7%, falling to just under $73,000 on Tuesday, its lowest level since early November. Famed big short investor Michael Burry is now warning that the plunge could deepen into a self-reinforcing death spiral, in his words, inflicting lasting damage on companies that have spent the past year stockpiling the token.
Shares at Novo Nordisk have slumped 19% at the European Open after the company warned of a steep decline in sales of its drugs, a move that shocked investors. The company says it expects sales will fall by as much as 13% due to lower prices for its blockbuster weight loss medicines, driven by a US government push to bring down drug costs. Novo's American depository receipts fell by 15% on Tuesday, their biggest decline since July. The CEO, Mark Dowstar, spoke to Bloomberg after the announcement.
Of course, I can understand that negative numbers are not good news to the market. But once again, this is something that we had anticipated. And the obesity market is quite dynamic. And the reason the range has its numbers on each end is because so many things can happen.
Novo Nordisk CEO Mark Dastar speaking there as the company also announced that it will start a new share buyback worth as much as $2.4 billion.
Now, UBS has reported stronger than expected fourth quarter results with net income of $1.2 billion that beat estimates. The Swiss lender also announced a $3 billion share buyback. While the bank said that that figure could grow across the year, client inflows for its wealth management unit fell short of expectations. Here is CEO Sergio Amotti.
The investment bank is growing well in the areas where we want to compete. Asset management is doing a good job and the Swiss business is also holding up well despite the low rates or negative rates almost environment and we're making also good progress on the integration. 85% of the Swiss clients of Credit Suisse have been migrated.
How did a new AI tool contribute to the software stock sell-off?
We are delivering on our capital returns so I can only be happy to be honest.
UBS CEO Sergio Amorti there speaking. As the bank broadly maintained its previously signalled financial targets for 2028 in terms of the investor response, UBS shares in European trading opened down as much as 1.2%.
Shares in Santander dropped 4% at the European market open as the bank announced a €5 billion share buyback and confirmed it had agreed to buy Webster Financial for €12 billion.
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