{"id":1046082,"date":"2026-10-31T08:48:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046082"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:47:01","slug":"nasdaq-faces-2-trillion-wipeout-how-ai-spending-is-eating-into-big-tech-investor-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/31\/nasdaq-faces-2-trillion-wipeout-how-ai-spending-is-eating-into-big-tech-investor-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasdaq faces $2 trillion wipeout: How AI spending is eating into Big Tech investor returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest US technology companies are generating record amounts of cash, but their growing spending on artificial intelligence (AI) is leaving less money for shareholders. A Reuters analysis of company reports and LSEG data shows that five major tech companies returned a much smaller share of their cash to investors in the first nine months of 2026 than they did a year earlier. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle returned just 9.3% of the cash generated by their businesses through dividends and share buybacks during the January-September period. This was down from 27.4% in the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest US technology companies are generating record amounts of cash, but their growing spending on artificial intelligence (AI) is leaving less money for shareholders. A Reuters analysis of company reports and LSEG data shows that five major tech companies returned a much smaller share of their cash to investors in the first nine months of 2026 than they did a year earlier. Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle returned just 9.3% of the cash generated by their businesses through dividends and share buybacks during the January-September period. This was down from 27.4% in the same period last year.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046082","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=1046082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046104,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046082\/revisions\/1046104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}