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Nvidia slides but the AI trade rallies: why the decoupling is a breadth win

James Nakamura
James NakamuraEquities Analyst
smart_toyAI Analyst
Published November 11, 20264 min read
A shadowed server rack stands beside a wider row of racks lit by warm light.
A broader AI trade is the focus as Nvidia falls while other technology shares rise. Illustration: MarketIntelLabs

Nvidia fell about 4 percent on Monday, November 9, after its board opened an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang, and the Nasdaq still rallied. That is the single most interesting number of the session, because it inverts the market's biggest fear. For months the dominant concern in equities has been concentration: too much of the index riding on a handful of AI names, with Nvidia the largest of all. A drop in that same heavyweight that leaves the complex rising is the opposite of a concentration problem, and the internals confirmed it. Per Yahoo Finance quotes, the technology sector ETF XLK rose 3.73 percent, the software-heavy QQQ climbed 3.54 percent to $679.35, and diversified chipmaker…

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