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| The price action of Semiconductors (SOXX) sector is shaped by numerous forces, ranging from broad macroeconomic trends to company-specific performance and market structure. The overall sentiment for Semiconductors sector is very bullish (overall 2.7, positive 3.7, negative -1) on 20251204. The forces of Sentiment towards Fundamentals (2.6), Valuation Sentiment (2.2), Sector Price Trend (1.8), Broad Market Trend (0.4), and Market Risk Appetite (0.4) will drive up the price. The forces of Price Level Sentiment (-0.5), and Option Sentiment (-1.5) will drive down the price. 'Buy the dips' is the preferred trading strategy. Hourly SMA 20 trend line is likely to provide a support from any pullbacks. The swing to upside will be significant considering the high positive sentiment forces (3.7). The sentiment for Broad Market Trend is calculated based on SPY trend. The sentiment for Sector Price Trend is calculated based on SOXX trend. The sentiment for Option Speculation is calculated from put/call ratio. The Risk Prefrence is calculated from Bitcoin price trend. Price Level sentiment is positive when oversold, and negative when overbought. Valuation Sentiment, and Sentimentals towards Fundamentals are extracted from headlines and market commentary. All sentiment scores are normalized on a -10 - +10 scale. |
| Date | Attention | Average Attention | Price | Price Level | Change | SMA10 Trend | Market Sentiment | Trend Sentiment | Action | Fund. | News Sentiment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-04 | 5% | 4.4% | 306.36 | 85 | -0.97% | 0.87% | 2.7 | 1.8 | Long | 2.6 | 3.7 |
| 2025-12-03 | 4% | 4.3% | 309.36 | 92 | 2.15% | 1.16% | 3.2 | 2.6 | Range | 2.5 | 2.6 |
| 2025-12-02 | 5% | 4.3% | 302.84 | 81 | 1.99% | 0.67% | 2.7 | 2.1 | Long | 2.2 | 4.5 |
| 2025-12-01 | 5% | 4.7% | 296.92 | 65 | -0.19% | 0.28% | 1.9 | 1.5 | Long | 1.5 | 5 |
| 2025-11-30 | 4% | 4.7% | 3.3 | 1 | Long | 1.6 | 1.5 | ||||
| 2025-11-29 | 3% | 4.4% | 3.7 | 1 | Long | 1.8 | 2.8 | ||||
| 2025-11-28 | 5% | 4.9% | 297.5 | 65 | 2.12% | 0.28% | 3 | 1.7 | Long | 1.8 | 0.6 |
| 2025-11-27 | 4% | 4.7% | 3.7 | 1 | Long | 2 | 2.9 | ||||
| 2025-11-26 | 4% | 5.4% | 291.31 | 50 | 2.73% | -0.28% | 1.7 | 0.4 | Range | 2.1 | 1.9 |
| 2025-11-25 | 8% | 6.3% | 283.58 | 32 | 0.31% | -0.42% | 1.9 | 0.7 | Long | 2.3 | 1.4 |
| Both emotion scores and sentiment scores are calculated in a -10 - +10 scale. | The price level reaches 100 at Bollinger upper band, and zero at lower band. | Range refers to range trade strategy. In an uptrend, the price will likely bullback after huge advance. As an investor, you may want to wait for the pullback to open long position. As a trader, you may consider tactical short. In a downtrend, the price will likely rebound after huge decline. As an investor, you may want to wait for the rebound to exit long position. As a trader, you may consider tactical long. |
| 1 (-5) Senators Seek to Block Nvidia From Selling Top AI Chips to China Nvidia Corp. would be barred from shipping advanced artificial intelligence chips to China under bipartisan legislation unveiled Thursday in a bid to codify existing US restrictions on exports of advanced semiconductors to the Chinese market. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 2 (8) OpenAI, NextDC Plan to Build $4.6 Billion Sydney Data Center OpenAI partnered with Australian data center operator NextDC Ltd. to build a A$7 billion ($4.6 billion) large-scale computing cluster in Sydney, accelerating its expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 3 (5) Lisa Su Says AMD Will Pay Trump's 15% Fee To Resume China AI Chip Sales Despite Beijing's Partial Block On Foreign Silicon AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company will resume MI308 chip shipments to China under a new 15% U.S. export fee despite Beijing's tightening restrictions, as AMD posts strong earnings and eyes long-term AI growth. (https://www.benzinga.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 4 (8) Billionaire Philippe Laffont Is Selling CoreWeave and Buying This Unstoppable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Instead After making a huge profit in CoreWeave, Laffont sees an opportunity in an AI leader. (https://www.fool.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 5 (-5) HPE Projects Sales That Miss Estimates on Delayed Server Deals Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. gave an outlook for sales in the current quarter that fell short of analysts’ estimates, suggesting the company isn’t meeting high expectations for the sales of its AI servers. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 6 (8) Data Center Startup Fluidstack in Talks for $7 Billion Valuation The cloud-computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise roughly $700 million in a funding round that would value the company at $7 billion, according to a person familiar with the situation. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 7 (8) Anthropic Just Deepened Its Partnership With Nvidia. Could This Push Nvidia Toward Its Next Trillion-Dollar Milestone? Anthropic recently signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Nvidia and Microsoft. (https://www.fool.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 8 (6) How Nvidia is outperforming AI competition with a lower valuation Nvidia's (NVDA) valuation remains lower than other top AI players, so how is the chipmaker continuing to outperform its competition? Argent Capital Management Portfolio Manager Jed Ellerbroek explains why this is happening with Nvidia and how it is a broader market theme. Also catch Jed Ellerbroek explain why investors are growing nervous about the AI infrastructure buildout as compared to previous cloud buildout cycles. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 9 (2) AMD chief says company ready to pay 15% tax on AI chip shipments to China SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) CEO Lisa Su on Thursday said the company has licenses to ship some of its MI 308 chips to China and is prepared to pay a 15% tax to the U.S. government if it ships them. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 10 (2) REUTERS NEXT - SAP CEO urges Europe to unite and ease AI rules to stay competitive Europe needs a more unified market and lighter-touch regulation to stay competitive in artificial intelligence as the U.S. and China accelerate investment and deployment, SAP CEO Christian Klein said on Thursday. Speaking at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York, Klein said Europe is "more important than ever" in a fast-changing geopolitical environment but "stands in its own way ... regulating where nothing has to be regulated." (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 11 (8) Australia's NEXTDC signs deal with OpenAI to build hyperscale AI campus, GPU supercluster Australian data center operator NEXTDC said on Friday it has signed a deal with OpenAI to collaborate on the development and operation of a hyperscale AI campus and GPU supercluster at its S7 site in Sydney. (Reporting by Kumar Tanishk in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri) (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 12 (1) AI's rise stirs excitement, sparks job worries The transformative effects of artificial intelligence dominated discussions at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York, with panelists concentrating on how it may upend work - and job growth - sidestepping concerns about an AI bubble. Artificial intelligence represents the biggest technological upheaval to the world economy since the rise of the internet a quarter-century ago. It has brought trillions of dollars of investment and dizzying stock-market gains, but also a shortage of memory chips, regulatory scrutiny, and rising anxiety about job displacement. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 13 (7) Esentia Sees Data Centers in Mexico Fueling Demand for Pipelines Mexico’s Esentia Energy Development expects a boom in data centers to bolster its pipeline business, as the country races to build out energy and AI infrastructure to compete with its regional peers. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 14 (6) Goldman-Backed Brazil Data Center Explores Power Supply Options Brazil’s biggest utility is exploring options to guarantee the power supply for a $50 billion data center project aimed at putting Rio de Janeiro at the forefront of artificial intelligence in Latin America. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 15 (7) Pricing surge in conventional DRAM sets Micron up for earnings upside Pricing surge in conventional DRAM sets Micron up for earnings upside (https://www.investing.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 16 (2) Amazon vs. Alphabet vs. Meta: This analyst's top AI pick RBC Capital Markets Equity Analyst Brad Erickson comes on Market Catalysts to discuss whether Alphabet's Google (GOOG, GOOGL) may have an advantage in the AI race through its TPU chips (Tensor Processing Units), Amazon's (AMZN) newly announced AI chips, and which tech stock he prefers when choosing between Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta Platforms (META). Also catch Brad Erickson weigh in on reports that Meta will be reducing its Metaverse budget. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Catalysts. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 17 (8) Google can grab AI trade in a 'winner take most' scenario Alphabet's Google (GOOG, GOOGL) has been gaining momentum as a serious AI contender, as users flock to the Gemini 3 chatbot and headlines that Meta Platforms (META) is looking to buy billions of dollars worth of semiconductor chips from Google. RBC Capital Markets Equity Analyst Brad Erickson illustrates the potential for Google to grab a portion of the artificial intelligence ecosystem in a "winner-take-most" type of scenario. Also catch Brad Erickson weigh in on reports that Meta will be reducing its Metaverse budget. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Catalysts. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 18 (7) This analyst’s top chip pick isn’t flashy, but it could benefit from ‘unprecedented’ momentum Applied Materials should benefit from upcycles in both the DRAM and leading-edge foundry industries, TD Cowen says (https://www.marketwatch.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 19 (-6) CyrusOne Halts Bond Sale After Data-Center Failure Cripples CME Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has paused a planned $1.3 billion mortgage-bond sale for CyrusOne, the data-center operator that supports CME Group Inc., after a major outage that hit one of the world’s largest derivatives exchanges. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 20 (-3) The Rise of AI Reasoning Models Comes With A Big Energy Tradeoff Nearly all leading artificial intelligence developers are focused on building AI models that mimic the way humans reason, but new research shows these cutting-edge systems can be far more energy intensive, adding to concerns about AI’s strain on power grids. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 21 (7) Nvidia CEO Says Nuclear Is AI's Future — Oklo, NuScale Ready To Roar Back? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a strong validation of the nuclear sector on "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast. (https://www.benzinga.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 22 (0) Better Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock for 2026: Nvidia vs. AMD Can the smaller chipmaker continue to outperform its more famous peer in the new year? (https://www.fool.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 23 (7) Google is playing 'both sides' of AI race: Top Mag 7 picks Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) is "roaring back" with Google's Gemini 3, former Intel (INTC) CEO Pat Gelsinger told Yahoo Finance. Gradient Investments investment analyst Lisa Schreiber joins Opening Bid to discuss Alphabet's recent run-up and to share the other "Magnificent Seven" names she's watching. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Opening Bid. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 24 (7) This analyst’s top chip pick isn’t flashy, but it could benefit from ‘unprecedented’ momentum Applied Materials should benefit from upcycles in both the DRAM and leading-edge foundry industries, TD Cowen says (https://www.marketwatch.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 25 (7) Alphabet’s AI Chips Are a Potential $900 Billion ‘Secret Sauce’ Alphabet Inc. investors are growing increasingly confident that the company’s semiconductors could represent a significant driver of future revenue for Google’s parent. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 26 (6) Nvidia has a cash problem — too much of it Nvidia's recent slew of billion-dollar checks highlight the company's growing cash pile. (https://www.cnbc.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 27 (7) 3 Stocks Poised to Benefit From Google’s AI Breakthough Market Analysis by covering: Alphabet Inc Class A, Broadcom Inc, TTM Technologies Inc, Celestica Inc. Read 's Market Analysis on Investing.com (https://www.investing.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 28 (8) Could This AI Chipmaker Be the Market's Next Trillion-Dollar Contender? Sales of AMD's data center CPUs and GPUs could surge over the next decade. (https://www.fool.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 29 (7) 10 AI Stocks Worth Buying Right Now Building an artificial intelligence (AI) portfolio means looking beyond the obvious megacap names. (https://www.fool.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 30 (7) Nvidia CEO breaks down the 'layers' of AI & how they work together Nvidia (NVDA) is probably the biggest name in AI. But AI takes energy, large-language models, and lots of data to work. Speaking at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explains four layers of AI and how they work together to help create the technology. Watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 31 (4) Meta faces EU probe, Palantir's software deal & Salesforce results Shares of Meta (META) edged higher ahead of the open, even as the company faces a new antitrust probe in the EU. Regulators are focused on Meta's WhatsApp messaging app and the use of AI on the platform. Separately, Palantir (PLTR) is teaming up with utility company CenterPoint (CNP) and Nvidia (NVDA) to create new software to speed up the building of AI data centers. Salesforce (CRM) shares are rising after third quarter earnings beat expectations. For more live coverage of the markets, watch the full episode of Market Sunrise and visit Yahoo Finance. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 32 (8) Alphabet’s AI Chips Are a Potential $900 Billion ‘Secret Sauce’ The success of Alphabet’s tensor processing unit, or TPU, chips is a primary reason for the stock’s 31% fourth-quarter rally, which is the tenth best performance in the S&P 500 Index. The TPUs were always seen as a major strength internally, accelerating growth for the company’s cloud-computing business. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Thu. Dec 4, 2025 | |
| 33 (-2) Nvidia’s Huang Unsure Whether China Would Accept H200 Chips Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said he’s unsure whether China would accept the company’s H200 artificial intelligence chips should the US relax restrictions on sales of the processors, following a meeting Wednesday with President Donald Trump. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 34 (7) Is Palantir's Deal With Nvidia a Game Changer? The two companies are joining forces to build a comprehensive AI ecosystem. (https://www.fool.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 35 (8) OpenAI just became the new Wall Street power broker You can catch Trader Talk on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. OpenAI’s (OPAI.PVT) rise isn’t just a tech story anymore; it’s a market-moving force that Kenny Polcari says investors can’t afford to ignore. In this Trader Talk segment, he argues that OpenAI is positioning itself as the indispensable middleman of the entire AI economy, reshaping how capital will flow into chips, data centers, and enterprise software. Polcari breaks down why this shift puts new pressure on traditional market leaders and creates fresh opportunities for investors who understand where the real leverage is forming in the AI stack. Watch more episodes of Trader Talk here. Trader Talk with Kenny Polcari on Yahoo Finance delivers expert analysis and actionable insights, empowering you to navigate market volatility and secure your financial future. This post was written by Langston Sessoms. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 36 (-6) Snowflake Gives Weak Profit Margin Outlook, Fueling AI Cost Fear Snowflake Inc. gave an outlook for operating margin that fell short of analysts’ estimates, raising concerns among investors about the profitability of new AI-based tools. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 37 (8) Brazil Emerges as AI Hot Spot With TikTok’s Data Center Push A 200 billion reais ($38 billion) commitment from ByteDance’s TikTok to help build a massive data center complex in Brazil is cementing the nation’s position as the leading location in the region for AI-related investment. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 38 (7) Intel says it will keep networking and communications unit Intel said on Wednesday it has opted to keep its networking and communications unit in the company following a review of strategic options for the unit. Intel had previously explored selling various assets while it weighed options on how to improve its financial position. Over the summer, Intel clinched an $8.9 billion investment from the U.S. government for a 10% stake, and investments of $2 billion from SoftBank Group and $5 billion from Nvidia. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 39 (0) Morgan Stanley Considers Offloading Some of Its Data-Center Exposure Morgan Stanley, one of the key players in financing the artificial-intelligence race, is considering offloading some of its data-center exposure via a so-called significant risk transfer. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 40 (8) Nvidia Scores Lobbying Win as Congress Rejects Chip Export Bill Nvidia Corp. is on the verge of securing a massive lobbying win after US lawmakers kept a measure out of must-pass defense legislation that would have limited the company’s ability to sell their advanced artificial intelligence chips to China and other adversary nations. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 41 (-2) Micron stops selling memory to consumers as demand spikes from AI chips Demand driven by the AI infrastructure boom is creating shortages for certain products like memory. (https://www.cnbc.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 42 (8) Marvell Could See AI Revenue Double By 2028 Thanks To New Tech Deal: Analysts Marvell Technology (NASDAQ: MRVL) stock rose after beating Q3 earnings estimates. Analysts raised price forecasts due to strong data center outlook and Celestial AI acquisition. (https://www.benzinga.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 43 (7) Qualcomm Holds Its Rising Channel as Momentum Signals Turn Back in Bulls’ Favor Market Analysis by covering: Qualcomm Incorporated. Read 's Market Analysis on Investing.com (https://www.investing.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 44 (8) Nvidia Just Delivered Amazing News for AI Stock Investors Nvidia recently presented the case for there being much more room for growth. (https://www.fool.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 45 (3) Amazon Is Expanding Its AI Chip Ambitions. Should Nvidia Investors Be Worried? Amazon says customers can save 30% to 40% by using its AI chips over Nvidia's GPUs. (https://www.fool.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 46 (6) xLight's Pat Gelsinger talks light source tech for chip production The Trump administration will be taking an equity stake in semiconductor manufacturer startup xLight with a $150 million investment. xLight executive chair Pat Gelsinger sits down with Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Sozzi to further discuss light source technology for AI semiconductor manufacturing. Gelsinger is also the general partner of Playground Global and was the CEO of Intel (INTC) from 2021 until December 2024. Also catch Brian Sozzi's full interview with Pat Gelsinger. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Catalysts. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 47 (0) Trump met with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about export controls, CBS News' reporter says U.S. President Donald Trump met with chip giant Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday to discuss export controls, a CBS News reporter said in a post on X. Nvidia did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. (Reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Barona) (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 48 (-6) Oracle Credit Fear Gauge Hits Highest Since 2009 on AI Bubble Fears The cost of protecting Oracle’s debt against default reached its highest since March 2009 on Tuesday, based on end-of-the-day credit derivative prices in New York, rising to about 1.28 percentage point a year, according to ICE Data Services. The price rose nearly 0.03 percentage point from the day before, and has more than tripled from as low as 0.36 percentage point in June. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 49 (4) Nvidia Scores Lobbying Win as Congress Rejects Chip Export Bill The so-called GAIN AI Act would require chipmakers, including Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., to give American customers first dibs on their powerful AI chips before selling in China and other arms-embargoed countries. A person familiar with the defense bill said it is not in the bill, though the situation could still change unexpectedly. The decision caps a fierce lobbying fight that pitted China hawks and AI safety advocates against Nvidia and other industry players, which have sought to expand their market access to Beijing. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
| 50 (8) Nvidia servers speed up AI models from China's Moonshoot AI and others tenfold Nvidia on Wednesday published new data showing that its latest artificial intelligence server can improve the performance of new models - including two popular ones from China - by 10 times. The data comes as the AI world has shifted its focus from training AI models, where Nvidia dominates the market, to putting them to use for millions of users, where Nvidia faces far more competition from rivals such as Advanced Micro Devices and Cerebras. Nvidia's data focused on what are known as mixture-of-expert AI models. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Wed. Dec 3, 2025 | |
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