AI Stocks Rally as Oil Falls: Nvidia, Broadcom Lead the Rebound
AI stocks are rallying again as falling oil prices give Wall Street some relief from the inflation and interest-rate fears that hammered technology shares earlier this week. The rebound swept across semiconductors on Thursday, with Nvidia gaining more than 2% and Broadcom rising more than 2%, while AMD, Micron, Arm and Marvell posted even larger advances. Semiconductor ETFs also climbed sharply. The shift came as crude prices retreated and the 10-year Treasury yield fell back below 5%. Reuters noted that U.S. crude dropped toward $101 a barrel while the 10-year yield eased to around 4.93%, two levels investors have been watching closely as pressure points for expensive growth stocks. AI Stocks Reverse a Brutal Selloff The turnaround is notable because AI stocks were under heavy pressure only days ago. The sector sold off after leading AI executives called for slower development of increasingly powerful models, raising questions about whether the enormous infrastructure spending behind the boom could eventually cool. That sent Nvidia and other semiconductor names lower and triggered a broader selloff in global AI stocks. Now investors appear to be separating those longer-term concerns from current demand. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang added fuel to the rebound by saying the company expects to sell roughly twice as many









