Trader’s Edge (7 Mar 2025) - Trade Tension Batters US Equities; BNM Keeps OPR at 3.0%

Ken Low20:29 ET

The Nasdaq has fallen nearly 10% in two weeks, with chip stocks facing heavy short-selling.

In yesterday's Nasdaq crash, chip stocks led the decline, with the PHLX Semiconductor Index plummeting by 4.5%. Short sellers are aggressively shorting Technology stocks, pushing the shorting costs for the VanEck Semiconductor ETF to this year's highest point. The market is worried that Trump's trade disputes, stubborn inflation in the USA, and large-scale layoffs dominated by DOGE could trigger a recession or even stagflation in the USA. Additionally, the improvement of AI capabilities in China has sparked market concerns about the future demand for chips.

wallstreetcn19:38 ET

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Benzinga19:28 ET

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Luzi Ann Santos14:20 ET · Movers

OpenAI and Oracle are collaborating to build the 'Stargate': The Texas Datacenter will deploy 0.064 million NVIDIA AI Chips.

OpenAI and Oracle are accelerating the advancement of the hundred-billion-dollar "Stargate" supercomputing infrastructure project. Reports indicate that the Datacenter in Abilene, Texas is the first to launch, with plans to deploy 0.064 million NVIDIA GB200 chips at that Datacenter, with the first batch of 0.016 million chips expected to be completed this summer. The GB200 chips alone at the Abilene Datacenter are worth billions of dollars, and the "Stargate" plan goes far beyond this, as OpenAI and SoftBank are exploring locations in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Salt Lake City to further expand the project's scale.

wallstreetcn14:14 ET