Meta Platforms and most other U.S. stocks are rising Thursday following a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies, but drops for Nvidia and Microsoft are keeping the market in check.

The superstar run for Nvidia’s stock the last few years has been astonishing. So was its tumble Monday, which caused $595 billion in wealth to vanish.

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) made stock market history on Monday, Jan. 27, but not the good kind. The chipmaker saw its share price decline 17%, due to concerns about an artificial intelligence (AI) model from Chinese start-up DeepSeek.

Retail investors bought a net $562 million of Nvidia stock on Monday, the largest single-day inflow in at least 10 years, VandaTrack said.

U.S. stocks slipped after the Federal Reserve held its main interest rate steady and broke a run of cuts that began in September

Dan Ives is not alone in selecting Nvidia as a top stock pick for 2025. Harsh Kumar at Piper Sandler recently wrote, "We are making Nvidia our top large-cap pick given the company's dominant position in AI accelerators and the upcoming launch of the Blackwell architecture."

Monday’s bloodbath in Nvidia and other AI stocks wiped out some $1 trillion from the stock market’s value.

A Chinese AI startup just upended the trillion-dollar AI race--sending Nvidia, Microsoft, and the Nasdaq into freefall.

That was the combined capital spending by Microsoft and Meta Platforms last quarter, nearly double a year earlier. The bulk of it went on chips and data centers to power generative AI services. Read w

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Intel on Thursday posted December-quarter results that beat analysts' low expectations, while its forecast for current-quarter revenue missed estimates as the chipmaker grapples with tepid demand for its data center chips and as investors wait for a new CEO.