AI Stocks Wobble as Earnings Test Looms — SkimNews

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- AI stocks are selling off, with the Financial Times characterizing the pullback as a "dress rehearsal" for a broader reckoning in the sector rather than the reckoning itself.
- Microsoft and Shopify are among five AI-favorite stocks whose upcoming earnings reports Wall Street is watching as the decisive test for whether the AI rally holds or breaks.
- Market observers are publicly split on framing, with Reuters calling it an "AI rally wobble" and Seeking Alpha asking whether the sell-off is a temporary dip or something more serious.
Why it matters: The earnings prints from marquee AI names like Microsoft and Shopify will resolve the central question hanging over the sector: whether the sell-off represents a re-entry point for a rally that powered much of this year's market gains, or the early innings of the structural repricing the Financial Times has been anticipating.
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