Crypto crumble smokes bitcoin-sensitive stocks and speculative tech

It’s a rough day out there, with the pain in the crypto markets being felt among select subgroups of US equities. Shortly before 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday, here’s a snapshot of where some of the worst pinches are.

There is some overlap between some of these baskets: for instance, bitcoin treasury company Strategy figures both in the “bitcoin sensitive” and “meme” basket. But in general it’s just a pretty ugly day for some of the more speculative corners of the stock market.

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Broadcom soars on Google’s plans for up to $185 billion in capex this year

Google’s capex guidance is Broadcom’s earnings guidance.

The hyperscaler and search giant said its 2026 capex budget would be between $175 billion and $185 billion, 55% higher than Wall Street had anticipated.

Accordingly, shares of the custom chip specialist are soaring in after-hours trading.

Broadcom has enjoyed a halo effect from Google’s capex plans and the success of its Gemini 3 model (trained on TPUs the two companies codesigned) over the past year.

But the custom chip designer had tumbled after its most recent earnings report, with some analysts attributing the decline to the dearth of new customer announcements. But who needs new customers when your current ones are opening their wallets this much?!?

Alphabet beat earnings and revenue expectations

Accordingly, shares of the custom chip specialist are soaring in after-hours trading.

Broadcom has enjoyed a halo effect from Google’s capex plans and the success of its Gemini 3 model (trained on TPUs the two companies codesigned) over the past year.

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Qualcomm tumbles after releasing gloomy Q2 guidance thanks to memory chip supply crunch

Q1 results beat expectations, but the memory chip crunch looks to be weighing on the forward outlook.

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Stocks continue to slide amid tech sell-off

Investors were once again in risk-off mode as tech and crypto continued to fall.

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Novo and Lilly agree prices are falling — and disagree on what comes next

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are cutting prices to reach more patients — with sharply different expectations about what that means for sales.

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Ozempic is no longer the most searched for GLP-1 in the US

Ozempic, the popular diabetes drug made by Novo Nordisk, used to be shorthand for an entire class of diabetes and weight-loss medications. Not anymore.

According to Google Trends data, as of January, more people in the US are searching for Eli Lilly’s weight-loss shot, Zepbound, than Ozempic. At the same time, interest in the word “Ozempic” now sits roughly on par with searches for “peptides,” a catchall term for a booming, loosely regulated category of experimental supplements.

The numbers hint at a cultural shift: Ozempic is no longer the only word people reach for when they think about weight-loss drugs. The market — and the vocabulary around it — is fragmenting.

This shift also reflected in sales numbers. For several quarters now, Lilly’s diabetes and weight-loss drugs have outsold Novo’s, and that gap is expected to widen this year.

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