Stock Market Today: Nasdaq 100 Rebounds From OpenAI Scare, T-Mobile Tumbles 12%
The Nasdaq 100 recovers from Thursday's OpenAI-driven selloff while T-Mobile sinks 12% on SpaceX's spectrum deal and the 10-year yield holds near 5.26%.
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The Nasdaq 100 recovers from Thursday's OpenAI-driven selloff while T-Mobile sinks 12% on SpaceX's spectrum deal and the 10-year yield holds near 5.26%.
The Magnificent Seven tech stocks (Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, NVIDIA, Meta, Tesla) offer significant AI and growth opportunities but face headwinds from massive capital expenditures exceeding $700 billion projected for 2026, weakening free cash flow across the group. While some stocks appear overvalued, ETFs provide diversified exposure to mitigate company-specific risks.
While IonQ and D-Wave are making technological progress in quantum computing, both remain unprofitable with unproven business models and face substantial dilution risks. Alphabet is presented as the superior long-term quantum computing investment, leveraging its existing AI ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, and proven business model to integrate quantum computing opportunities without relying solely on the technology's success.
Headwinds For The AI Trade Please click here for an enlarged chart of NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA). Note the following: This article is about the big picture, not an individual stock. The chart of NVDA stock
The article compares two specialized hardware companies: Cerebras Systems, which builds AI-accelerating wafer-scale processors and recently achieved profitability with $510M revenue but faces competitive pressure from Nvidia; and IonQ, a quantum computing leader with 202% revenue growth to $130M but still unprofitable with $510M net losses. The author recommends IonQ for 2026 due to its diversified customer base, expanding backlog, and fewer near-term competitive concerns, despite both being speculative early-stage investments.