{"id":361059,"date":"2025-11-07T01:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361059\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:19:12","slug":"softbank-shares-slide-over-8-amid-renewed-pressure-on-ai-linked-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361059\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank shares slide over 8% amid renewed pressure on AI-linked stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The logo of SoftBank is displayed at a company shop in Tokyo, Japan January 28, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Issei Kato | Reuters<\/p>\n

Shares of Japan’s SoftBank Group<\/a> resumed their slide on Friday, following a broader slump in AI-related stocks as investors once again grew wary of the sector’s lofty valuations.<\/p>\n

The group, which holds a wide range of AI investments across infrastructure, semiconductor, and application companies, saw shares drop more than 8%.<\/p>\n

This comes after SoftBank gained nearly 3% in the previous session, having plunged 10% on Wednesday to clock its worst day since April.<\/p>\n

Other Japanese tech stocks also declined. Semiconductor testing equipment maker\u00a0Advantest<\/a>\u00a0dropped over 6%, chipmaker Renesas Electronics fell nearly 4%,\u00a0Tokyo Electron<\/a>, a chip production equipment maker, declined 1.46%.<\/p>\n

SoftBank holds a controlling stake in U.K.-based semiconductor designer Arm Holdings, whose chips help power mobile and AI processors globally. Shares of Nasdaq-listed Arm slid 1.21% overnight. <\/p>\n

Separately, SoftBank considered acquiring U.S. chipmaker Marvell Technology Inc. earlier this year, Bloomberg recently reported <\/a>citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

The declines in Asian tech stocks also come after\u00a0AI-related companies in the U.S. fell overnight<\/p>\n

Qualcomm<\/a> dropped almost 4%, despite strong quarterly results, after warning it could lose future Apple business. AMD, a strong performer Wednesday, slipped 7%, while Palantir and Oracle were down about 7% and 3%, respectively. Nvidia and Meta Platforms, another of the “Magnificent Seven,” also finished lower.<\/p>\n

The excitement surrounding AI has raised worries that markets might be experiencing a tech bubble<\/a>. Some experts argue that the valuations of AI companies are starting to resemble the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, with stock prices rising well beyond realistic profit forecasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The logo of SoftBank is displayed at a company shop in Tokyo, Japan January 28, 2025.\u00a0 Issei Kato…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":361060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,8002,738,133,11732,81,170,135,755,15243,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-361059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-arm-holdings-plc","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-breaking-news-markets","12":"tag-breaking-news-technology","13":"tag-business-news","14":"tag-japan","15":"tag-markets","16":"tag-softbank-group-corp","17":"tag-south-korea","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115505788648145035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}