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AI Gave Investors a Glimpse of the Future This Month. And They Sold Their Stocks.
Investors have been betting for years that artificial intelligence would change everything. They got some proof of it this month—and then they started selling.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq fell in February, each suffering its worst month since tariff turmoil started to crop up in markets last spring. Among the hardest-hit: software businesses, tech companies and the financial firms invested in, or threatened by, the rapid evolution of AI technology.
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