NVDA is down 4.89% premarket—the only one of the Magnificent Seven in the red. Apple is up 0.65%, Microsoft 1.01%, Google 1.06%, and Amazon and Meta are also higher.
The entire AI hardware chain is down premarket, from optical modules and storage to cloud computing: Lumentum is down 2.65%, Micron 1.26%, CoreWeave 3.53%, and IREN 3.79%. Dow futures are up 0.6%, S&P futures 0.2%, while NVDA alone has dragged Nasdaq futures back to flat.
After the board investigation over the weekend, crypto markets sold off first on Sunday. Asian markets are ignoring it today; tonight, it’s up to U.S. stocks to set their own prices. The big software names haven’t followed suit, but the hardware chain has. At the open, watch to see whether this divergence holds.