Rebounding AI stocks lift Wall Street

NEW YORK (AP) — A rebound for stocks in the artificial intelligence industry is lifting the U.S. market on Wednesday.

The S&P 500 rose 1.3% and was on track for a third gain in four days since its wipeout last week on worries about a potential slowdown for AI-related businesses. The Nasdaq composite rallied 1.9%, but stocks outside of AI weren’t doing as well. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up a modest 57 points, or 0.1%, as of 11:45 a.m. Eastern time.

Leading the way on Wall Street was one of the stocks at the center of the AI industry’s manic recent swings. CoreWeave, which rents out access to AI chips to customers over the cloud, leaped 25% after reporting a smaller loss for the latest quarter than analysts expected.

It also made announcements that could allay some of the worries dogging it and the wider industry. For one, concerns are high about how CoreWeave and other companies will handle higher interest rates in the bond market, which make borrowing money more expensive.

CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator said his company has roughly $9 billion in customer prepayments and deposits expected in the next three months, along with other sources of cash to help pay its bills. That had some analysts saying it’s making progress toward being able to self-fund its business.

Worries have also been rising about a potential slowdown in the overall industry given longstanding worries about whether AI will produce enough profit and productivity to make the expensive investments worth it. Such concerns hit a higher level following sweeping victories for Democrats in last week’s U.S. midterm elections. The worry is that Democratic control of statehouses across the country could lead to restrictions on the construction of further AI data centers and the industry broadly.

But CoreWeave suggested strength is continuing, at least for now, and it raised its forecast for how much revenue it expects to make this year. The number was higher than analysts expected.

Of course, many challenges remain for CoreWeave and for the AI industry broadly. But CoreWeave’s report nevertheless helped stocks across the industry claw back some of their sharp recent losses.

Micron Technology, which sells memory for computers, rallied 13.4%. Broadcom added 6.6%. GE Vernova, which is helping to power AI data centers, rose 3.1%.

Even Nvidia climbed 3.8%.

The chip company that quickly became the face of the AI boom has been falling recently for reasons that have nothing to do with the rest of the industry. Its board is investigating its CEO, Jensen Huang, after he admitted to a relationship with a businesswoman who allegedly fed intelligence and advanced chips to China.

Outside of tech, Fossil Group soared 26.9% after the seller of watches, handbags and other products reported a stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. It also raised its forecast for revenue this year.

Trading elsewhere on Wall Street was mixed, though, and slightly more stocks within the S&P 500 fell than rose.

United Airlines lost 1.6% as stocks broadly felt pressure from a rise in oil prices, which recovered some of their losses from earlier in the week.

The price for a barrel of Brent crude added 2.9% to $94.10. It’s near the middle of its $72 to $120 range since the war with Iran sent oil prices much higher early this year.

Higher oil prices tend to push yields upward in the bond market, but the U.S. bond market is closed for the day in observance of Veterans Day.

Yields jumped in the bond market the day before following a worse-than-expected reading on inflation in the United States. The discouraging report raised expectations for coming hikes to interest rates by the Federal Reserve.

Higher yields mean higher rates for mortgages, and companies in the real-estate industry continued to fall Wednesday. Homebuilders PulteGroup sank 2% and D.R. Horton fell 1.9%.

In stock markets abroad, indexes rose across much of Europe and Asia.

South Korea’s Kospi jumped 2.6% for one of the world’s biggest moves, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was an outlier after falling 1%.

Stocks rose 0.5% in Shanghai as China’s biggest online shopping festival, Singles Day, began Wednesday. Its sales data will offer a gauge of how strong spending is in the world’s second-largest economy.

AP Writers Elaine Lai and Michelle Chapman contributed to this report.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has issued a warning to Democrats over their planned probes into the Trump administration, going as far as claiming that such investigations — a standard oversight function of Congress -- may amount to “blatant criminality.”

White House counsel Will Scharf issued the warning in a letter dated Monday to Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.

Garcia most likely would chair the powerful panel in the new Democratic-controlled Congress that is seated in January. Garcia warned Trump officials to “lawyer up” after his party’s stunning victories in last week's midterm elections.

In response, Scharf wrote in Monday’s letter that “threats to executive branch officials designed to deter them from public service, or process designed merely to abuse or instill fear in the recipient may cross the line into blatant criminality." The letter’s existence was first reported by Punchbowl News.

Garcia said in response to the letter that “it appears Donald Trump has something to hide” and stressed that Congress’s investigative powers do not need the “permission of the White House.”

“Congress has wide latitude to conduct investigations and oversight, an authority inherent in the power to legislate,” Garcia said. “The American people voted overwhelmingly for us to pass laws to root out corruption and abuse.”

Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda to look at how Trump and his family have become wealthier since he returned to office. The Republican president and his White House have long denied any wrongdoing.

Garcia also wants to look at the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Other targets include Trump’s White House ballroom and other construction projects, as well as the Trump family’s role in mineral deals and Trump’s crypto dealings with special envoy Steve Witkoff.

Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a CNN interview that aired Sunday that “there could be” a crime to investigate if rhetoric from Democrats turned threatening. He appeared to strike a more conciliatory tone during an appearance in Missouri this week, saying “Congress has oversight authority. It always has, it always will. The Department of Justice, the federal government, works with Congress to address questions they have — whether it’s through subpoenas or letters — so we’re not going to stop working with Congress.”

“Nothing I’ve said this weekend, or in the past, should suggest otherwise,” he added.

Associated Press writer Eric Tucker contributed.

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