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Kommentar: Der Crash an der Wall Street ist kein Unfall

Die politischen Sorgen der Anleger sind nicht unberechtigt. Aber sie sind eher der Katalysator für eine Neubewertung des KI-Booms, die sich schon länger angedeutet hat.

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Kommentar: Der Crash an der Wall Street ist kein Unfall

The beauty of Wall Street lies in the fact that there is always a fundamental explanation available, no matter how astonishing the market movement. On Wednesday, stock prices on Wall Street rose sharply due to the resounding victory of the Democrats in the midterm elections within the United States, and markets love nothing more than planning certainty.

On Thursday, however, the indices recorded historic losses in some cases, out of fear that the Democrats would impose stricter regulation on the AI industry and curb the expansion of data centers, thus throttling the boom that supports the entire US economy. "Read more: "AI Bloodbath" on the Markets: Three Billion Dollars of Market Value Destroyed in a Day" The severe losses are a bit more rational than the gains, as the AI boom is indeed experiencing its first major crisis, at least in terms of the stock market.

This crisis will undoubtedly be followed by many more, completely independent of whether we are dealing with a market bubble at the moment or not.

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