OpenAI IPO Delay Report, Ship Struck in Hormuz, More
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Caroline Hepker. Stocks are falling as a sell-off in Apple shares and reporting that OpenAI may delay its IPO rattle confidence in artificial intelligence bets. South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi has tumbled 8%, triggering a 20-minute trading halt. as Asian markets slumped to a two-week low. In Tokyo, SoftBank shares have plunged 13% after The New York Times reported that the chat GPT maker OpenAI is leaning towards delaying its planned listing until next year. According to the paper, bankers advising the startup believe that recent volatility in tech stocks, along with the performance of SpaceX shares following its record IPO, could dampen retail investor appetite for the offering.
Bloomberg's Romain Bostic says that waiting may be the smart move if the company wants to maximise its value.
SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, they were supposed to be the holy trinity of IPOs this year. Three AI companies all potentially coming out of the gate with trillion-dollar valuations. We got SpaceX. Anthropic has filed confidentially, and the best we know, they still plan to move forward. OpenAI also making that confidential filing, but this New York Times report suggesting that there have been some discussions with Sam Altman, who leads this company, where basically the advisors said that if you go out of the gate now, you're not going to have that $1 trillion valuation.
Bloomberg's remain bostic there. After OpenAI's latest funding round earlier this year gave it a valuation of $852 billion. Well, that reporting on the chat GPT maker came shortly after Apple announced price hikes for Macs, iPads and home devices. The iPhone maker's stock fell more than 6% in U.S. trading as the company sought to offset rising costs caused by unprecedented global demand for memory chips. 248 Ventures chief investment strategist Lindsay Bell believes the move is a sign that AI stocks may have peaked.
I think that the Apple stock price reaction is sending a signal that the rest of the market might not have gotten today. And to me, it says this could be the first sign that the AI bubble could potentially be starting to deflate. And I don't say that lightly. I say that in a market that we've been in that rewards margin expansion and at the very worst, margin maintenance.
Lindsay Bell speaking there as shares of Apple's Asian suppliers also fell sharply following the news. A ship has been hit by an unidentified projectile in the Strait of Hormuz.
What recent news affects OpenAI's IPO plans?
The container ship Ever Lovely was struck while it was sailing along a recommended route, according to its Taiwanese operator. Bloomberg TV's Middle East correspondent Abir Abu Omar says that it's the first reported attack since the interim US-Iran peace deal came into force.
Now, there are some reports that suggest that the Iranian army, through those projectiles, the U.S. side says it's too early to tell. So it's not really clear yet who the culprit in this attack is. But the latest reporting suggests that it's the IRGC.
Abir Abu Omar added that oil prices, which had earlier returned to pre-war levels, turned higher on the news. Brent crude touched session highs close to $76 a barrel after the attack. They have since declined. Emergency services in Venezuela are still searching for victims after two attacks. Earthquakes struck the country earlier this week. Rescue teams in the coastal city of Katia Lamar are looking for those trapped by several collapsed buildings after residents compiled lists of missing people on social media.
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