US stocks slip as Nvidia leadership doubts weigh on tech while producer prices run hot
US indexes closed lower on Friday as questions about Nvidia's leadership hit chip shares, while producer prices rose 6.5% year on year, Reuters reports.
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what happened
According to Reuters, US equities closed lower on Friday, with technology names under pressure from doubts about Nvidia's outlook. The stock fell 2.2% and was heading for its sixth consecutive weekly decline, the longest such run since October 2012. The slide followed CEO Jensen Huang's departure announced on Thursday, which came amid reports of his ties to a businesswoman whom Washington suspects of spying for China. The Financial Times reported that Nvidia's board has approached Arm Holdings chief Rene Haas about a possible replacement for Huang.
Analysts say the leadership gap calls into question how durable the AI rally is, since Nvidia sits at the heart of the boom and has financial links to many companies in the sector. Anthony Saglimbene, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial, said investors are now trying to work out what the AI theme looks like without Huang, whom he described as the sector's main champion.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.01% to 52,291.73, the S&P 500 lost 0.51% to 7,553.53, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.93% to 25,129.60. The Philadelphia Semiconductor index fell 3.7%. Even so, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were on track for weekly gains, snapping four weeks of declines. Attention is also turning to Anthropic's IPO next week.
The Labor Department said US producer prices in October came in slightly below forecasts but still climbed 6.5% from a year earlier, the biggest annual increase since November 2022. CME FedWatch data showed markets almost fully priced in a rate increase of at least a quarter point at the Fed's December meeting, with roughly a 10% chance of a larger half-point move. Several Fed officials, including Mary Daly and Susan Collins, also backed further tightening.
why it matters
Hot producer inflation keeps the case for further monetary tightening alive, and higher rates weigh on expensive tech stocks by lifting the discount rate applied to their future earnings. Nvidia's leadership uncertainty adds stock-specific risk to a heavily weighted index name, while the Anthropic listing could redirect investor money within the sector.
market impact
US stocks, Nasdaq: tech sell-off over Nvidia doubts and Fed hike bets pressures growth shares
- Nasdaq Composite pressure down — tech shares sold off on doubts about Nvidia's leadership
- S&P 500 pressure down — weak tech sector and expectations for tighter Fed policy
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- Wall St slides as Nvidia uncertainty drags tech shares lower — Reuters, 13 November 2026 at 19:56 UTC
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