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Broadcom's Disappointing AI Outlook Drives Tech-Led Stock Rout | Bloomberg Businessweek
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· · Hosts: Carol Massar, Tim Stenovec · Guests: Bailey Lipschultz, Tom Giles, Natalia Kniazhevich, John Flood, Dan Arnold, Vanessa Perdomo-Maglione
Summary
Tech stocks led a broad market pullback after a strong jobs report raised the odds of a Fed hike later this year, and Broadcom’s weaker-than-expected AI-chip sales outlook added to the selloff. One market reporter argued the drop looks like a pause after an extraordinary run, noting the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index was still up sharply year to date and that investors are now more focused on what the Fed does next.
The episode also focused on the AI trade itself: the conference conversations in San Francisco suggested demand for chips, compute, and model training remains intense, but the debate has shifted to whether that demand is durable and monetizable. A technology editor said Broadcom’s result showed how high expectations are for AI infrastructure names, while another guest said the business is capital intensive and will keep leaning on public markets for funding.
SpaceX’s planned IPO was framed as a major test for the market rather than a surprise. The reporting emphasized that demand is already strong, while Goldman Sachs said institutional positioning remains disciplined and hedged even near all-time highs. The show ended with a sports-business segment on World Cup security, stressing that host cities face different logistical and safety burdens, especially around drones, transport, and crowd control.
Key takeaways
- Broadcom’s weaker AI-chip forecast helped trigger a tech-led selloff, but the market reporter said the Philadelphia Semiconductors Index was still up more than 74% year to date.
- The market reporter said investors are increasingly focused on whether the Fed’s next move could be a hike, which is weighing on risk appetite.
- The technology editor said Broadcom’s earnings showed how high expectations have become for AI infrastructure companies and that missing by even a little can disappoint investors.
- A guest said AI remains capital intensive and that companies building models will keep relying on the public markets to raise money.
- Goldman Sachs said hedge funds are still long AI and tech names but are heavily hedged, which suggests skepticism remains despite strong market performance.
- SpaceX’s IPO was described as a widely telegraphed deal with strong demand already building ahead of pricing.
Notable quotes
“the Philadelphia semiconductors index is down more than 9 and a half% right now. It's up 74% year to date”
“the logical answer has to be a hike. Whether that's later this year, whether that's early next year, obviously we'll see how the economic data play out”
“if you don't meet or exceed expectations, and sometimes if you don't exceed expectations by a lot, there's going to be disappointment”
“it's a very capital intensive business to to train AI models I think the sort of core set of companies that are working to advance the frontier are just going to need access to capital”
“we actually still see a lot of discipline out there. There's still, I think, a wall of worry left to climb higher in this market”
How the episode opens
Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio, news. This is Bloomberg Business Week Daily. Reporting from the magazine that helps global leaders stay ahead with insight on the people, companies, and trends shaping today's complex economy. Plus, global business, finance, and tech news as it happens. The Bloomberg Business Week Daily podcast with Carol Masser and Tim Stenbec on Bloomberg Radio.
SpaceX has already received orders for more than the shares available in its $75 billion IPO. That's according to people familiar with the matter. It puts the company on the verge of setting the record for the biggest ever listing separately just crossing the Bloomberg terminal.
Bailey Lipult's leading this story, too. A quiet effort by Morgan Stanley to prevent retail investors from placing multiple orders for shares of SpaceX in the company's massive IPO is facing push back from some of the country's largest brokerages. Bay Lip Schultz joins us now.
He's holding on the fort in Bloomberg headquarters in New York, the Bloomberg Interactive Brokers Studio. Bailey, you lead our IPO coverage. We're going to talk about uh SpaceX and the fantastic reporting that you and the team have done around it.
We do. Before we do that though, as we just heard from Charlie, we're seeing a major sell-off today with some of the chip names uh really leading the charge lower. Your view on this equity market, especially as tech has been leading the way, giving back some of these historic gains.
I mean, Tim, I go to Italy for about 2 weeks and the market's at an all-time high. On no news though, Tim, no news happens, the market goes up, no one bats an eye, we see two days of weakness and all of a sudden the sky is falling. Just want to call out the fact that yes, the Philadelphia semiconductors index is down more than 9 and a half% right now.
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Topics
- broadcom ai chip outlook
- tech stock selloff
- interest rate hike expectations
- semiconductor stocks
- crypto and risk assets
Companies and tickers mentioned
- AVGO
- MU
- GS
- Broadcom
- Micron
- Samsung
- Goldman Sachs
- Protos Security
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