{"id":31346,"date":"2025-08-29T19:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31346\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:02:07","slug":"as-momentum-trade-fades-duolingo-drops-into-negative-territory-for-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31346\/","title":{"rendered":"As momentum trade fades, Duolingo drops into negative territory for the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retail fave Duolingo<\/a> dove Friday as part of a sudden reversal in the momentum trade<\/a> that has dominated the market bounce off its tariff-driven April 8 lows. <\/p>\n

There was no obvious news or corporate event catalyzing the tumble, though the stock has been under a bit of scrutiny over the last week, since Google<\/a> unveiled an AI-assisted real-time translation tool that some say could pose a threat<\/a> to the language learning app. <\/p>\n

The Google news wasn\u2019t a shocker though. We posed questions about the strategic threat of AI might pose to Duolingo, when Sherwood talked to Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn<\/a> almost a year ago. And mounting concerns about AI competition don’t explain the suddenness of the Friday’s selloff. <\/p>\n

Whatever the cause, the depth of the tumble was enough to push Duolingo shares firmly into the red for 2025, a position it hasn\u2019t been in since March, which \u2014 coincidentally \u2014 was when a major reversal also hit momentum shares<\/a>. <\/p>\n

That sell-off was worsened by the Trump administration\u2019s April tariff announcement that came close to pushing the S&P 500 into a bear market before the administration backed away from tariffs setting off a massive rally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retail fave Duolingo dove Friday as part of a sudden reversal in the momentum trade that has dominated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[79,18,19,17,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-31346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}