CNBC Daily Open: From AI enthusiasm to bubble worries in one day

U.S. stocks delivered 1 of their sharpest temper swings successful months connected Thursday.

The Nasdaq Composite ended down 2.16% aft spending the greeting stateside up arsenic overmuch arsenic 2.6%. The chaotic swings from precocious to debased (regrettably, not successful the other direction) were besides seen successful the S&P 500, which mislaid 1.56% astatine the extremity of the time aft reaching a precocious of 1.9%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average followed the aforesaid arc, closing 0.84% little from an intraday emergence of 1.56%.

Nvidia led the turbulence. Shares of the AI spot darling were up arsenic overmuch arsenic 5% earlier tumbling from that highest to finish the league down 3.2%. Plotted roughly, the question of different AI shares, including Oracle and AMD, traced akin paths, suggesting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's rejection of the AI bubble communicative initially reassured investors, but their concerns couldn't beryllium repressed for long.

September's U.S. jobs study besides added to the market's strain. Even though the information was truthful delayed that today's system could look precise antithetic from what it was 2 months ago, the numbers were overmuch amended than expected. That further dampened expectations of a complaint cut, with traders expanding their bets that U.S. Federal Reserve officials volition clasp involvement rates successful December, according to the CME FedWatch tool.

Investors present find themselves contending with stretched valuations and 1 less complaint chopped connected the horizon. Holiday optimism is inactive connected the calendar, but the timeline for cheer to acceptable successful looks little generous than hoped for.

U.S. stocks fell arsenic AI stocks tumbled again. Major indexes closed successful the reddish connected Thursday stateside successful a volatile time of trading, portion Bitcoin fell to its lowest terms since April. Europe's Stoxx 600 added 0.4%, with AI-related stocks specified arsenic ASML and BESI ticking up.

Key takeaways from Nvidia's earnings. CEO Jensen Huang rejected the thought of an "AI bubble," CFO Colette Kress affirmed the company's "half a trillion" gross forecast and said China orders during the quarter were "insignificant."

The U.S. added 119,000 jobs successful September. That's sharply higher than the Dow Jones statement estimation of 50,000. Unemployment roseate to 4.4% from 4.3% successful August, the highest successful astir 4 years.

Ray Dalio counsels holding amid bubble. The Bridgewater laminitis told CNBC connected Thursday "the representation is beauteous clear" that we are successful a bubble. But thing is popping it conscionable yet, and investors should inactive hold connected to their positions.

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Nvidia had a blowout quarter. But analysts pass the existent AI bubble hazard lies elsewhere

While Nvidia's earnings are wide viewed arsenic an important gauge of the AI industry's health, immoderate analysts pass that its show doesn't archer the full story. 

Analysts who spoke to CNBC drew a enactment successful the soil betwixt AI spot companies, specified arsenic Nvidia, and downstream players, including hyperscalers and firms gathering AI models. "The interest is astir companies raising a batch of indebtedness to physique information centers," said Gil Luria, caput of exertion probe astatine D.A. Davidson.

— Dylan Butts