THE NIKKEI CRASHED NEARLY 5 % OVERNIGHT . WILL THE NASDAQ FOLLOW IT TODAY ?

What happened: Japan's Nikkei fell nearly 5% overnight and South Korea's KOSPI nearly 8%, tied to concern over a US cloud-computing provider's financial health and AI borrowing, plus hotter US inflation. Why it matters: The content frames this as an AI hardware scare rather than broad contagion, since selling is confined to chip stocks and the VIX remains in its normal range. It says the selloff would need to spread past chips for the Nasdaq to follow Asia.

Japan's Nikkei fell nearly 5% overnight and South Korea's KOSPI nearly 8%, tied to concern over a US cloud-computing provider's financial health and AI borrowing, plus hotter US inflation.

The content frames this as an AI hardware scare rather than broad contagion, since selling is confined to chip stocks and the VIX remains in its normal range. It says the selloff would need to spread past chips for the Nasdaq to follow Asia.