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Wall Street's increasing anxiety culminated in the S&P 500 closing down 2% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq falling 2.7%. Both indices are poised for their fifth weekly decline in six weeks. A number of factors are driving these trends:

Palladyne AI Corp (NASDAQ:PDYN) makes AI and machine learning software for robotic systems. The stock is down significantly so far in 2025 as volatility in small-cap tech stocks has intensified, and investors have rotated away from high-growth, speculative names like PDYN toward more stable assets.

In a remarkable turn of events, Docusign, the leading provider of digital transaction management solutions, has seen its stock price

Demand for artificial intelligence (AI) hardware has jumped substantially in the past couple of years. Technology giants in the U.S. and abroad, along with governments around the globe, are pouring billions of dollars into developing powerful large language models (LLMs),

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The Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) has dropped 8% from the record high in reached in February. Investors are worried about how the trade war will impact the economy. But certain Wall Street analysts see the drawdown as an opportunity to buy shares of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD) Dan Ives at Wedbush recently set his

Shares have retreated in Asia, with benchmarks in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea falling more than 2% after Wall Street indexes fell sharply on doubts over the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology.

Equity markets have been volatile over the past week as some of the industry leaders in artificial intelligence (AI) -- which make up a large percentage of indexes like the Nasdaq Composite -- have been encountering stiff competition out of China.