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US jobs growth came in much stronger than expected (172,000 vs about 85,000 forecasted), wiping out hopes of near-term Federal Reserve rate cuts.
Higher rate expectations hit richly valued growth stocks hardest, especially AI and chip names.
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), Micron (NASDAQ: MU) and Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) all fell as…
AI Stocks
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Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) closed down about 13% even after a record quarter that beat profit forecasts, because its AI revenue outlook was strong but not the blowout the market had priced in.
The result itself was good (record revenue, AI chip sales up 143%), but the stock had run about 40%…
Megaport (ASX:MP1) Surges 11% as Investors Pour A$518m Into Its AI Cloud Bet, Despite the AI Selloff
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Megaport (ASX: MP1) rose about 11% on 5 June 2026 to around A$18.48, after spiking as much as 27% to a record A$21.16 intraday before fading.
The company raised about A$518 million from big investors, with nearly all (99%) taking part.
A second offer for everyday shareholders opens on 11…
Archer Materials (ASX:AXE) quantum machine learning model caught 118 of 148 frauds with one false positive, lifting its commercial profile.
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US chipmaker Marvell jumped 32% in a single session after Nvidia's CEO called it a possible "next trillion-dollar company," lifting AI chip stocks worldwide.
Australian investors can play the same AI hardware trend through three ASX tech names.
The three: Weebit Nano (ASX: WBT) in next-generation memory, Archer Materials (ASX:…
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DXN (ASX:DXN) closed up about 590% at A$0.145 on 3 June 2026, from a previous close of just A$0.021 (2.1 cents), on heavy turnover of almost 107 million shares.
The catalyst was a binding A$8.8 million contract to build a 1.36MW AI data centre for a US-listed neo-cloud operator, a deal…
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There's no pure-play humanoid robot maker on the ASX. The big builders (Nvidia, Tesla, Unitree) are all overseas.
The easiest ASX way in is a robot ETF: the pure-play Global X Humanoid Robotics (ASX: HMND), or broader robotics funds like Global X ROBO (ASX: ROBO) and Betashares Global Robotics & AI…
Megaport (ASX:MP1) is raising A$827.3m to fund four new AI contracts worth A$458.9m and build an on-demand GPU Pool platform.
Micron Hits US$1 Trillion: AI Chip Bubble or Boom?
Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) has done something almost no one imagined a year ago: it crossed US$1 trillion in market value for the first time in late May, and its shares have since pushed past US$1,000. The stock has more than tripled since the start of…
Anthropic Files for IPO Before OpenAI- What It Means for ASX Tech Stocks
Anthropic, the company that makes the Claude AI chatbot, has confidentially filed to go public in the US, and it beat its bigger rival OpenAI to it. The move landed on 1 June and surprised markets, since both companies were expected to…
