Wall St ends lower as tech rally stalls, AI fervor wanes after Nvidia results

Wall St ends lower as tech rally stalls, AI fervor wanes after Nvidia results

By Stephen Culp and Ragini Mathur

Thu February 26, 2026  

Today provided a prime example of why shorting is risky. Though the market liked Nvidia’s numbers yesterday, taking a closer look today was not quite as impressed. As today’s expert put it, “It’s as simple as investors being levered long in Nvidia and short the AI disruption. When that failed to materialize in a large enough scale, they sold out their position, driving Nvidia down and pushing the stocks they were short back up.”  

Wall Street extends tech-powered rally as AI worries abate; Nvidia reports

Wall Street extends tech-powered rally as AI worries abate; Nvidia reports

By Stephen Culp and Shashwat Chauhan

Wed February 25, 2026  

The renewed optimism over AI spilled over into a second day with all three indexes shooting straight up again with very impressive 3-digit gains again, this time more than enough to overcome Monday’s tech losses and almost enough to overcome Monday’s Dow losses. Recent AI good news has put the angst over return-on-investment on the back burner momentarily though major concerns still surround the potential for AI disruption in ancillary industries.  

Wall St bounces back, ending higher on renewed tech vigor, easing AI concerns

Wall St bounces back, ending higher on renewed tech vigor, easing AI concerns

By Stephen Culp and Shashwat Chauhan

Tue February 24, 2026 6:16 AM  

The pattern continues with the markets being fearful about AI one day and jubilant about it the next. A few hints of positivity today from AI companies, most notably from the AI lab Anthropic did the trick. There was also likely a lot of “buying the dip” action going on today as well. At any rate, it was a shot straight up all day on all three indexes with nice 3-digit gains in both the Dow and Nasdaq, though not quite sufficient to make up for yesterday’s losses. On this third day following the 15% global tariff, markets are still trying to assess potential impact and whether existing trade agreements will be impacted.  

Wall Street ends sharply lower amid AI displacement fears and revived tariff angst

Wall Street ends sharply lower amid AI displacement fears and revived tariff angst

By Stephen Culp and Shashwat Chauhan

Mon February 23, 2026 

It seems that the stock market was willing to brush off the 10% global tariffs Trump imposed Friday, defying the Supreme Court after it declared his tariff policy unconstitutional. But when he upped it to 15% on Saturday, that was a whole different story, not only because of all the added uncertainty and chaos that’s suddenly been thrown into the mix but because the new tariff breaks trade agreements that already in place, making us vulnerable to even more chaos in the global markets. Add to that the continuing angst over the potential repercussions from AI and it was a formula for a perfect storm.  

Wall Street ends higher after Supreme Court rules against Trump tariffs

Wall Street ends higher after Supreme Court rules against Trump tariffs

By Noel Randewich and Shashwat Chauhan

Fri February 20, 2026 6:52 AM

It’s been no secret that Wall Street and U.S. industry in general have not been happy with the tariffs which have created so much uncertainty and chaos in the markets for the past year. So when the Supremes struck down the tariffs, the indexes all greeted this happily with triple digit gains in both the Dow and Nasdaq. Not that the uncertainty has been completely removed as was evidenced by the charts showing a whole lot of rollercoaster throughout the day.  

Wall Street ends down as Nvidia slides and private equity stocks sink

Wall Street ends down as Nvidia slides and private equity stocks sink

By Noel Randewich

Thu February 19, 2026 5:35 AM

The AI vs software developers tug-of-war resurfaced today when private equity firm (the firms that finance these smaller companies) Blue Owl Capital sold $1.4B in assets citing repeated concerns about software firms to be hurt by AI. Other private equity firms followed the leader and did same. There was a rush out of everything, though following recent patterns, there was a huge dip in the middle of the day followed by a recovery of sorts. Everything looked much worse earlier with the Dow down over 450 by 1 pm (recovering about half of that in the final hour), and the Nasdaq down over 150 by 3 pm, again recovering about half in the final hour.  

US stocks follow European shares higher; geopolitical jitters boost oil, gold

US stocks follow European shares higher; geopolitical jitters boost oil, gold

By Stephen Culp

Wed February 18, 2026 9:00 PM

The pattern continues. After opening with all three indexes zooming way up, the Dow up over 350 points, then at 1:30 everything went crashing down to lose all gains by 3:30 but did recoup some of them in that final half hour. The trigger was the usual mix of competing interests of rate cuts vs inflation control. Dampening sentiment was also the disappointing Ukraine peace talks and Iran restricting access to the Strait of Hormuz creating potential supply problems. Christine Lagarde’s leaving her post at the ECB was an additional cause for concern. Fed minutes showed a strong consensus to hold rates steady but a split over the timing of the next cut. Per the CBOE, volume was 17.1 billion, still below the 20 billion average.

DJ: 49,533.19  +32.26         NAS: 22,578.38  +31.71         S&P: 6,843.22  +7.05             2/17

DJ: 49,662.66  +129.47       NAS: 22,753.64  +175.25       S&P: 6,881.32  +38.10           2/18

Wed 2-18-26 5:04 pm US stocks follow European shares higher; geopolitical jitters boost oil, gold | Reuters