
- Jerome Powell cut interest rates by 0.25% and downplayed fears of an AI bubble. Investors reacted with sophistication: Meta and Microsoft sold off sharply overnight, but Google rose 7%. Bitcoin dropped to $110,000.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell bifurcated the stock market yesterday when he delivered a 0.25% rate cut that the market was expecting and then, unexpectedly, said he did not believe that the AI sector was in a bubble, akin to the dotcom boom of 2000.