Yet Tesla can do absolutely fucking nothing and then do a Nazi salute and shares go up 50%

The stock market is just rich people’s feelings

You own land, and you decide to plant it full of one type of crop because the forecast promises you an excellent harvest. You don’t have money, so you get a deposit from people buying the crop, in return of a certain share of the harvest. But most people that did so actually believe the forecast was very conservative and the crop will end up even bigger, so they’ll expect more than you promised.

Then the forecast changes, and the harvest might end up smaller, and much smaller than the people expected. Some want their deposit back, but to do so they have to sell that share to someone else, but they buy it with the current forecast and demand, and pay way less for it.

People buying Caterpillar expected for a massive construction boom. Any kink to that forecast is going to cause some people to reconsider and pull their money to the next potential company able to fly to the moon.

This exact thing has been driving me crazy for like a decade now. Say a company makes $1 billion in profit one year, and the next year isn’t as good but they make $800 million. Still a very profitable company, but because it was less then the year before it’s considered horrible and the company is basically going out of business.

This also points out how the AI bubble is affecting the economy far beyond the tech sector.

Construction equipment used to be used for other things, not just building datacenters. But, since the start of the AI bubble, almost everything else has slowed down because they’re dedicating so much construction equipment and workers towards building datacenters.

https://futurism.com/future-society/data-center-spending-ai-bubble-construction

In just 1 year, construction work on DCs has gone up by 64.5%. And, that’s from 2025 to 2026. It’s not like it was at a standstill in 2025. Meanwhile, residential construction is down significantly. And, there has been a 25% cut in construction related to manufacturing.

So, their earnings beat expectations, but they didn’t beat the expectations for how much they’d beat expectations, so the share price went down.

That’s why I always say that big shot, institutional investors are a bunch of cunts. They always think in short term. That’s why I am in favour of half year earnings report so that there is less pressure for companies to think in three months time.

Mass manipulation. I wish I were smart enough and had enough to bribe the right people to be in on the looting.

DISCO INFERNO!

Gazoline is at a record high, but I will happily fund a Jerrican to feed this fire.

Don’t get our hopes up, Yoda

More ketamine, I must have. Crashed my Honda Civic, I did. Looking forward to withdrawals, I am not.

I asked my penis, she said start using the bitch. I said I beat you daily and she starts talking about ass and pussy and it’s like I might be the second coming but I ain’t no miracle worker, aight? Fucking get off my dick already, you fucking dick, amirite?

they did away with that around the same time they removed it from YouTube. probably because they knew people weren’t going to read/watch AI generated bullshit.

jokes on them, I still found ways to search YouTube between dates.

Every big financial crisis has a few pump and dumps along the road before the real sell-off starts, which is all in the hands of the actual elite.

Intel is down, AMD is down, SpaceX is going down slowly.

Off of stratospheric highs. They’re now merely overvalued, rather than extremely overvalued

Well they didn’t actually lose any money just that some shareholders sold it for less than they bought it for today.

I bought a block of cheese for $10. Yesterday someone offered me $12 for it. Today someone offered me $8 for it. Where did the $4 go?

There was an article out about how ai search is 5 time more expensive than standard search, not sure where I saw it, but the whole stock market is basically gambling anyway, unless you have some kind of insider knowledge

Edit: My bad, misread what the previous poster wrote. The explanation is still valid, though.

If you look at their historical price chart, what you call a “minor fluctuation” this is one if not the largest price changes in both absolute and relative terms of at least the last 5 years.

Also the trading volume was the largest since 2016.

Basically you’re looking at an elephant and calling it a mouse.

It makes sense that a 12.6% stock price movement is a big thing for a company with that market cap and liquidity, since it has way less volatility that smaller companies because it takes way more money to move its price a mere 1%, plus the high liquidity means that the trading stack is far deeper and it’s way harder for there to be a crunch because you can always find people willing to buy if the price falls enough (or, on the other direction, willing to sell if the price rises enough).

This ain’t Joe’s Corner Shop Inc.

That said, the price is still above a year ago, though by a mere 0.83%, so whilst this is a big price movement, it’s far from having unwound the AI bubble stock price rise for Google - looking at its full historical price chart and roughly projecting the historical trend to present day, Alphabet stock price would have to fall around 50% more to return to historical trend and that’s assuming that without the AI bubble it would have continued to go up as before rather than reduce to the typical growth rates of mature companies.