New York, Oct 23, 2026 (AFP) - US stocks fall again amid worries over AI

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2026-10-23

Wall Street stocks fell early Friday, extending a pullback amid worries that a massive build-out of artificial intelligence infrastructure won't pay off. Unease about lofty spending on data centers continued to churn after earnings from Meta raised fears that tech giants might sell their own stock to fund the spending spree. All three major indices were lower early Friday. But in a shift from recent sessions, the Nasdaq was outperforming the othe......

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