{"id":1041324,"date":"2026-10-07T07:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041324"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:31:43","slug":"us-software-stocks-scale-fresh-2026-highs-as-ai-disruption-worries-fade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/07\/us-software-stocks-scale-fresh-2026-highs-as-ai-disruption-worries-fade\/","title":{"rendered":"US software stocks scale fresh 2026 highs as AI disruption worries fade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US software stocks are touching fresh 2026 highs, supported by a sharp rise in earnings expectations, which according to several analysts indicate that fears over AI-led disruption in the sector were largely overstated. <\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 500 software and services index rose 1.3% on Tuesday to its highest levels since November 2025, after posting its biggest quarterly jump in July-September since the second quarter of 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Strong earnings from software companies such as Salesforce, ServiceNow and Accenture, along with partnerships with AI labs, helped fuel a recovery in the sector that had been underway since late June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US software stocks are touching fresh 2026 highs, supported by a sharp rise in earnings expectations, which according to several analysts indicate that fears over AI-led disruption in the sector were largely overstated. The S&amp;P 500 software and services index rose 1.3% on Tuesday to its highest levels since November 2025, after posting its biggest quarterly jump in July-September since the second quarter of 2020. Strong earnings from software companies such as Salesforce, ServiceNow and Accenture, along with partnerships with AI labs, helped fuel a recovery in the sector that had been underway since late June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041346,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041324\/revisions\/1041346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}