Nvidia slides on the market after Jensen Huang affair: is AI in danger?
Nvidia shares fell more than 6% on Monday following revelations about CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with a woman suspected of espionage for China. Up to $270 billion of market capitalisation could be wiped out. Does…
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Nvidia shares fell more than 6% this morning in Frankfurt, even before Wall Street opened. A drop that represents around $270 billion in market capitalization potentially wiped out for the artificial intelligence chip giant.
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At the origin of this fall, an independent investigation opened Sunday by Nvidia into its CEO, Jensen Huang. The group is seeking to determine whether it was targeted by a Chinese espionage operation after having a relationship with Alice Huang, a former executive of Megaspeed, a Singaporean company client of Nvidia.
Unrelated to Jensen Huang, this businesswoman is suspected by the American intelligence services of having transmitted information to Beijing. The CEO admitted his infidelity to his employees, but remains at the head of the group.
Nvidia's volatility is also reflected in the tokenized stock market. The OKX crypto platform notably offers xNVDA, a token that tracks the Nvidia share price, without conferring shareholder rights.
Before the European exchanges, the first signs of nervousness appeared on the markets accessible outside traditional hours, notably on Hyperliquid.
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The decentralized exchange platform offers perpetual contracts linked to Nvidia shares, allowing you to speculate on its evolution without holding the title or expiration date. Those contracts were trading around $180.30, or 3.4% below Friday's Nasdaq closing price of $186.64.
The Blue Ocean night trading system showed a similar price. These markets thus gave a first indication of the reaction of investors, before the official opening of Wall Street.
To follow Nvidia's fluctuations even when Wall Street is closed, Hyperliquid offers perpetual contracts indexed to its stock, accessible 24 hours a day. These products allow you to bet on the rise or fall of the price, without holding the securities, but carry significant risks, particularly with .
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