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AI Rout Exposes Wall Street’s $270 Billion Speculation Machine

AI Rout Exposes Wall Street’s $270 Billion Speculation Machine
Bloomberg Markets Friday 26 June 2026, 20:17 UTC By Isabelle Lee, Denitsa Tsekova 1 min read
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AI Rout Exposes Wall Street’s $270 Billion Speculation Machine This week’s tech rout did more than puncture one of the year’s hottest trades: it exposed the machinery of modern speculation — and how quickly it can work in reverse. A retail-fueled unwind in AI chip stocks reverberated through semiconductor shares across Asia and the US, hammering leveraged ETFs and denting newly launched SpaceX funds.

AI Rout Exposes Wall Street’s $270 Billion Speculation Machine This week’s tech rout did more than puncture one of the year’s hottest trades: it exposed the machinery of modern speculation — and how quickly it can work in reverse. A retail-fueled unwind in AI chip stocks reverberated through semiconductor shares across Asia and the US, hammering leveraged ETFs and denting newly launched SpaceX funds. Elsewhere, the unraveling of Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. rattled crypto markets as one of the industry’s biggest financial-engineering machines for Bitcoin exposure came under pressure. [Image text:] 12:22:41 NYSe ANKCE NCHANGG 9 DELL J70J OTHERS 512 INEECTING
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