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Chip Rebound Lifts S&P 500 and Nasdaq

Wall Street and European markets rallied on Wednesday as CoreWeave's results revived the AI trade, but hotter US inflation and talk of a Federal Reserve rate rise leave the recovery fragile.

The S&P 500 closed at 7,619.38 on Wednesday, up 1.31%, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.60% to 25,466.19. The rebound looked to be driven by CoreWeave’s results, which reignited the AI trade, with chip stocks leading.

  • S&P 500 up 1.31% to 7,619.38; Nasdaq Composite up 1.60% to 25,466.19
  • CoreWeave’s third-quarter results beat analyst estimates
  • DAX led Europe, up 1.20%; FTSE 100 rose 0.8% to 10,835.47
  • Both US indices remain below their close on Wednesday last week

CoreWeave Results Revive the AI Trade

The S&P 500 fell 0.38% yesterday and the Nasdaq Composite, which covers every Nasdaq-listed stock and leans towards tech, lost 0.74%. US consumer price index (CPI) inflation, the main gauge of prices, had come in above market expectations, and markets increasingly priced a 25-basis-point (quarter of a percentage point) Federal Reserve rate rise in December.

CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV), a US cloud provider of AI data-centre capacity, reported third-quarter revenue of $3.66bn against analyst estimates of $3.55bn. Its adjusted loss was 95 cents a share against an expected $1.16 loss.

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Scoreboard: DAX Leads Europe

All six indices closed higher, with the US pair and Germany ahead of London.

IndexCloseChange% change
S&P 5007,619.38+98.45+1.31%
Nasdaq Composite25,466.19+400.32+1.60%
FTSE 10010,835.47No data+0.8%
DAX26,662.77+315.32+1.20%
CAC 408,332.87+54.28+0.66%
STOXX Europe 600663.05+4.73+0.72%

Germany’s DAX was strongest in Europe, ahead of the STOXX Europe 600, which spans 600 companies in 17 countries, and France’s CAC 40. Sharecast’s London close report put the FTSE 100 up 0.8% at 10,835.47, a smaller gain than the DAX or either US index.

The rebound does not erase the damage from Thursday, when the S&P 500 fell 4.36% and the Nasdaq Composite 5.52%. The S&P 500 finished 0.90% below its close on Wednesday last week, and the Nasdaq Composite 1.05% below.

Both US indices fall sharply on 5 November then partially recover over the following sessions, with the Nasdaq Composite swinging more than the S&P 500 and both still below their 4 November level.
S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite, daily closes rebased to 4 November = 100

The Fed rate-rise pricing that followed Tuesday’s inflation data has not been resolved, so the AI-led bounce still rests on it.

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