Retail Investors Pile Into Chip Stocks as SOX Index Soars 60% in 6 Weeks
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Updated · Bloomberg · May 11
Retail Investors Pile Into Chip Stocks as SOX Index Soars 60% in 6 Weeks
3 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 11
JPMorgan data showed individual investors lifted technology-stock purchases to the highest level in a year last week, with chipmakers among the biggest draws.
Hardware companies logged their second-largest inflow on record as retail traders chased memory-chip names tied to the artificial-intelligence boom.
That buying comes after many small investors largely missed April’s record-setting semiconductor rally and are only now joining the move.
The late surge in retail demand is arriving just as concerns grow that the chip-stock advance may be losing momentum after the SOX index jumped 60% in six weeks.
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